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HK Cantonese Dialect Characters used for writing Spoken Cantonese...anyone...?


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Could anyone who knows link me to a page that has an extensive list of known Hong Kong Cantonese Dialect Characters? These Traditional Derived Characters I have seen used to write Spoken Cantonese found in informal writings like messaging online amongst HK friends? As many of my HK friends overlook their use, I am told though that the Cantonese invented these characters as so to transcribe their spoken language, as I know many of these characters have meanings with no reltion to their often used mouth radical, other than being a giveaway that they give a cluse to usage in spoken language, while their phonetic element gives suggestion of their actual local pronunciation.

My list so far are 冇,哋,咁,嘢,嘅,孖,嚟,咪...and learning more...

Also, now for something a little of the topic, I am interested in obtaining the a complete list of Single Character's used to write Western Imperial and sometimes Metric Units in older Chinese orthography such as an example: 吋,啢, 哩, 呏,噸 and of the like.. (And, no the one linked to orignally linked from an earlier post of mine which would answer my question and did when it worked) on this forum doesn't this time help me because the link is *dead*)

So yes if someone with this are of knowledge link me to a source with an extensive known list, then that would be gladly appreciated.

Thankyou

Xi'Er-Dun

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You can find a list here, below the first two sets of phrases, and listed in alphabetical order by Jyutping (standard Chinese equivalents are given).

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第一 Ok 了 ... 第二 just Google 一下 : 吋,啢, 哩, 呏,噸 and you get:

... 告guk1 告giu3 呌wan4 呍cek3 呎sing1 呏naap6 呐neot6 呐m4 呒ngai6 呓taai1 ... 啞kai2 啟fe1 啡fei1 啡loeng2 啢loeng5 啢haam4 啣ham4 啣be1 啤saa1 啥laa1 ...

apt.nc.hcc.edu.tw/pub/mirror/opendesktop.org.tw/OXIM/cin_tables/jyutping.cin.gz -

then go for HTML view, there's the whole list with pronunciation for each character :wink:

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Thankyou users Wai Ming, Hoffmann and Leeyah for your replies, gladly appreciated your time and effort linking me to some expert sources. Cheers!

Xi'Er Dun

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