收聲

See also: 收声

Chinese

		to receive; to accept; to collect to receive; to accept; to collect; in care of (used on address line after name)	sound; voice; (a measure word, used for sounds) sound; voice; (a measure word, used for sounds); tone; noise
trad. (收聲)		收	聲
simp. (收声)		收	声

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau¹ seng¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sau¹ seng¹
    • Yale: sāu sēng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau¹ seng¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo¹ séng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯⁵⁵ sɛːŋ⁵⁵/

Verb

收⫽聲 (verb-object)

1. (Cantonese) to stop talking; to shut up

   收聲啦！／收声啦！ [Cantonese]  ―  sau¹ seng¹ laa¹! [Jyutping]  ―  Shut up!

   好心你收句聲啦！ [Cantonese, trad.]
   好心你收句声啦！ [Cantonese, simp.]

   hou² sam¹ nei⁵ sau¹ geoi³ seng¹ laa¹! [Jyutping]

   For goodness' sake, quit talking!

   講到收唔到聲 [Cantonese, trad.]
   讲到收唔到声 [Cantonese, simp.]

   gong² dou³ sau¹ m⁴ dou^3-2 seng¹ [Jyutping]

   can't stop talking

Synonyms

• 住口 (zhùkǒu)
• 住嘴 (zhùzuǐ)
• 絕口／绝口 (juékǒu) (literary)
• 閉嘴／闭嘴 (bìzuǐ) (chiefly as a command)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 住口 (“to shut up; to stop talking”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		住口, 住嘴, 閉嘴
Mandarin	Taiwan	閉嘴
	Singapore	閉嘴, 靜靜
Cantonese	Guangzhou	收聲, 收口, 收嗲, 收皮
	Hong Kong	收聲, 收口, 收嗲, 收皮
	Singapore (Guangfu)	收聲, 收嗲
Hakka	Meixian	合嘴
Southern Min	Tainan	恬去
	Penang (Hokkien)	恬
	Singapore (Hokkien)	恬
	Leizhou	關喙

Noun

1. (film) location sound-recording

Synonyms

Synonym: 收音 (shōuyīn)