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三個字

saam1 go3 zi6

fifteen minutes (also 一個骨 in telling time)

Level: 2

三個字

三 saam1 saam3 san1 - three; several
個 go3 ge5 ge4 - a piece
字 zi6 zi4 zi5 - word; glyph

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而家幾點鐘? 而家係三點三個字。粵 edit
What time is it now? It's a quarter past three.

This word was added by bybell on 5th Oct 2006

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