嚿

嚿 U+56BF, 嚿
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56BF
← 嚾
[U+56BE] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 囀 →
[U+56C0]

Translingual

Han character

嚿 (radical 30, 口+18, 21 strokes, cangjie input 口廿人X (RTOX), composition ⿰口舊)

References

Chinese
trad. 嚿
simp. 𫩥
variant forms 舊／旧
䊆

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 口 (“mouth; vernacular”) + phonetic 舊 (OC *ɡʷɯs).

Etymology

Bai (1980) derives this word from 䊆 (MC ɡɨuX).

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Pronunciation

Definitions

嚿

  1. (Cantonese) Classifier for pieces or chunks. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
    一嚿泥 / 一𫩥泥 [Cantonese]  ―  jat1 gau6 nai4 [Jyutping]  ―  a clod of earth
    呢嚿肉 / 呢𫩥肉 [Cantonese]  ―  nei1 gau6 juk6 [Jyutping]  ―  this piece of meat
  2. (Cantonese, colloquial) Classifier for money: hundred dollars
    三嚿水 / 三𫩥水 [Cantonese]  ―  saam1 gau6 seoi2 [Jyutping]  ―  three hundred bucks
    呢度食餐晏都要幾嚿㗎。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    呢度食餐晏都要几𫩥㗎。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    Nei1 dou6 sik6 caan1 aan3 dou1 jiu3 gei2 gau6 gaa3. [Jyutping]
    Lunch costs a few hundred here.

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