命仔

Chinese

		life; fate	minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility
simp. and trad. (命仔)		命	仔

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): meng⁶ zai²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: meng⁶ zai²
    • Yale: mehng jái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: meng⁶ dzai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: méng⁶ zei²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɛːŋ²² t͡sɐi̯³⁵/

Noun

命仔

1. (Cantonese) one's life (as opposed to death) (Classifier: 條／条 c)

   執返條命仔算係噉。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   执返条命仔算系噉。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   zap¹ faan¹ tiu⁴ meng⁶ zai² syun³ hai⁶ gam². [Jyutping]

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Synonyms

• 一口氣／一口气 (yīkǒuqì) (figurative)
• 性命 (xìngmìng)
• 活命 (huómìng)
• 生命 (shēngmìng)

 

Derived terms

• 命仔凍過水／命仔冻过水