Cantonese character of the day

DEmeant0r

和

wo4 wo6 wu4
[1] harmony; harmonious [2] peace; peaceful; calm [3] [v] be affable [4] [n] sum; aggregate [5] of Japan [6] and
Stroke count: 8

和

DEmeant0r

樂

lok6 ngok6
[1] music [2] a Chinese family name
Stroke count: 15

樂

Zion

This is funny...I''ve never saw someone has a "樂" for their family name in my life

DEmeant0r

I'm not sure either, but I got some words from a big enough site, I've never heard of someone with 樂 for a surname either.

DEmeant0r

行

ha6 ha5
[1] [v] put down [2] [v] lay [3] [v] fall [4] [v] descend [5] [v] begin [6] below; under [7] inferior; lower [8] next
Stroke count: 3

行

This is for the 2nd of October, forgot to do it yesterday.

DEmeant0r

富

fu3
[1] abundant; rich; wealthy; affluent; plentiful [2] a Chinese family name
Stroke count: 12

富

This is for the 3rd of October.

DEmeant0r

冬

dung1
[1] winter [2] 11th lunar month; period from the 10th to the 12th month
Stroke count: 5

冬

This is for yesterday (4th October).

DEmeant0r

行

haang4 hang4/6
[1] [v] go; walk; go on foot [2] [v] move; travel; circulate; go [3] [v] act; do; work [4] [v] publish [5] [v] be current; prevail [6] able; capable [7] all right; O.K.; enough [8] baggage for travel [9] [n] road; path [10] ready to ... [11] Kangxi radical 144
Stroke count: 6

行

DEmeant0r

Ugh I haven't updated for the past 9 days, anyways this is for the 6th of October.

瘦

sau3
thin; emaciated; lean; meager; slim; scrawny; skinny
Stroke count: 15

瘦

DEmeant0r

This is for the 7th of October.

滑

waat6 gwat1
[1] [v] slip; slide; glide [2] smooth; slippery [3] insincere; dishonest; cunning1
Stroke count: 3

滑

DEmeant0r

This is for the 8th of October.

淺

cin2
[1] shallow; not deep; superficial [2] easy; simple [3] light (color) [4] narrow and small (land)
Stroke count: 11

淺

DEmeant0r

This is for the 9th of October.

晚

maan5
[1] sunset; night; evening [2] late [3] drawing toward the end [4] younger; junior
Stroke count: 11

晚

DEmeant0r

This is for the 10th of October.

歡

fun1
[1] happy; pleased; glad; joy; jubilant [2] joys; pleasures [3] [n] lover [4] active and energetic; quick; in full swing [5] a Chinese family name
Stroke count: 22

歡

DEmeant0r

This is for the 11th of October.

街

gaai1
[n] street; road; thoroughfare
Stroke count: 12

街

DEmeant0r

This is for the 12th of October.

鹽

jim4 jim6
[n] salt; common salt
Stroke count: 24

鹽

DEmeant0r

This is for the 13th of October.

簘

piu1 piu3
[1] [v] float; drift; be tossed about 簘獹: beautiful
Stroke count: 14

簘

DEmeant0r

This is for today the 14th of October.

鼻

bei6
[1] [n] nose [2] before any others; first [3] Kangxi radical 209
Stroke count: 14

鼻

DEmeant0r

灰

fui1
[1] [n] ashes; dust [2] lime [3] gray (color) [4] [v] break into tiny pieces or particles [5] disheartened disappointedly; discouraged
Stroke count: 6

灰

NeoSlicerZ

*mutters about changing board name to "Cantonese"*

strawberry

Ok, what does that mean?
Other than two lines with a french c beside them.

Originally posted by Demeant0r
灰

灰

DEmeant0r

You need to have the Big5(cantonese) encoding enabled, so it won't make sense if you have the western encoding enabled.

call_me_fish

Demeant0r wrote:

You need to have the Big5(cantonese) encoding enabled, so it won't make sense if you have the western encoding enabled.

how do u do that?

DEmeant0r

View>Encoding>More>Chinese Traditional(Big5) in IE
View>Character Encoding>More>East Asian>Chinese Traditional(Big5) in Firefo

Lantis

NeoSlicerZ wrote:

*mutters about changing board name to "Cantonese"*

I concur.

I demand more Mandarin, or a new board. >(

DEmeant0r

Firstly there must be an interest in this board, and by the looks of it nobody wants to converse about either Cantonese or Mandarin here. Secondly, admittedly I only know Cantonese so I can only help that portion of the population, which is tiny. so someone else that knows mandarin should moderate with me.

elivsvonchiaing

Thanks for the BIG5 post demeantor - never knew how to enable that - I usually install Windows with all chinese/hangul/kanji options and could never get them to work!

I can recognize only about 100 simplified characters so I'm not the one for moderator

DEmeant0r

There seems to be people having trouble activatiing Big5, I'll post a sticky about it now.

Lantis

Any chance of posting in here or a new topic or something the different tonal levels? I know the levels that exist, but I'm not sure how to apply those numbers to them.

DEmeant0r

Lantis wrote:

Any chance of posting in here or a new topic or something the different tonal levels? I know the levels that exist, but I'm not sure how to apply those numbers to them.

Sure - I'll do over the weekend, just don't have the time in weekdays with all the college related stuff/parties I've to do/go to.

AMurphy

Can you offer an explaination why "ma-ma-fhu-fhu" = "horse horse, tiger tiger" translates into "like this like that" or eq.

btw, "ma", is also used as a Question mark. "bao le ma", are you "fed/full yet?"

And "San Ba", "3-8" means airhead or nuts.