What does "水鱼" mean in Cantonese?
In Cantonese, seoi jyu has two meanings. The first one refers to a person who is easily deceived. Because the water fish is the tortoise, the turtle (scientific name: soft-shelled turtle), because it looks stupid in appearance, so the deceived victim is called "water fish". The second reason is that because the shell of a fish in water is soft, water will come out as soon as you press it out of the water. In Guangdong, "water" means "money".
Cantonese, also known as Cantonese and Cantonese, is commonly known as vernacular and overseas as Tang dialect. It is a tonal language of the Han family of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is one of the seven major dialects in China and is also the Cantonese ethnic group of the Han nationality. mother tongue.
Cantonese originated from the elegant dialect of the ancient Central Plains. It has a complete set of nine tones and six tones, and perfectly retains the characteristics of ancient Chinese. Cantonese is widely spoken in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong, and Macau in China, as well as in overseas Chinese communities such as Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, Sydney, Melbourne, and Christmas Island in Australia, New York and San Francisco in the United States, and Vancouver and Toronto in Canada. There are nearly 40 million Cantonese speakers in Guangdong Province, and about 70 million Cantonese speakers worldwide.
Cantonese has 20 initial consonants: b[p]bang; p[p?]pang; f[f]fu; m[m]ming; d[t]duan; t[t?]through ; n[n] south; l[l] come; z[ts] fine; c[ts] clear; s[s] heart; g[k] see; k[k?] stream; gw[k?] light ; kw[k?] standard; ng[?] tooth; h[h] good; j[j] salt; w[w] soul; [?]an?
Note: [] is inside International Phonetic Alphabet symbols, with Cantonese pinyin symbols on the left and example characters on the right)
Tone: nine tones and six tones: Yin Ping, Yin Shang, Yin Qu, Yang Ping, Yang Shang, Yang Qu, Yin Ru, Middle entry, Yang entry.
The representative characters of the nine tones are: poetry (si1); history (si2); trial (si3); time (si4); city (si5); matter (si6); color (sik1); tin (sik3); food (sik).
In fact, the pitches of the tones of Yin Ru, Zhong Ru, and Yang Ru are the same as those of Yin Ping, Yin Qu, and Yang Qu, but they use the rhyme characters ending in -p, -t, or -k. To distinguish. Because the definition of tone includes circumflex (that is, actual pitch) and frustration. The endings of -p, -t, and -k in the rhyme of the entry tone affect its frustrating nature. Therefore, even if it is only marked with six numbers from 1 to 6, we still say that there are nine tones, or there are "nine tones and six tones", and it cannot be said that there are only six tones.
The representative characters of the six tone values are: Zhou (zau1); Mouth (hau2); Store (dim3); River (ho); Mu (mou5); Crossing (dou6).
Drawing the tones into a diagram makes it easier for people to imagine the differences between the six tones.
Vocabulary: Cantonese vocabulary is divided into Chinese words, Cantonese words and loanwords.
Chinese words: the most commonly used, accounting for most of the vocabulary, such as "time".
Cantonese words: Cantonese-specific words, such as "Dexian".
Loanwords: refer to words composed of foreign languages. Cantonese absorbs more foreign words. For example, "Shiduo" in Cantonese's daily language means "store" in English