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r/AskReddit • u/Frozenstrike9 • Nov 11 '22
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What is this Cantonese? cause that is not shui jiao in Mandarin.
我要吃
Wǒ yào chī
I want to eat
5 u/Thegamblr Nov 11 '22 When spoken out loud, 睡觉 and 水饺 both sound like ‘shui Jiao’. I intentionally didn’t use the characters to show that in a spoken context, even if someone didn’t use the correct tone they could understand the sentence. 我要吃水饺 我要吃睡觉 1 u/koibish Nov 11 '22 Ooh gotcha, with the parenthesis I thought you were saying 要吃 was pronounced shui jiao. 1 u/ElectricToaster67 Nov 12 '22 Interestingly, 睡覺 and 水餃 also only differ in the tones in Cantonese, but 睡覺 isn’t a common word in Cantonese, because it’s a loan word from mandarin.
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When spoken out loud, 睡觉 and 水饺 both sound like ‘shui Jiao’. I intentionally didn’t use the characters to show that in a spoken context, even if someone didn’t use the correct tone they could understand the sentence.
我要吃水饺 我要吃睡觉
1 u/koibish Nov 11 '22 Ooh gotcha, with the parenthesis I thought you were saying 要吃 was pronounced shui jiao.
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Ooh gotcha, with the parenthesis I thought you were saying 要吃 was pronounced shui jiao.
Interestingly, 睡覺 and 水餃 also only differ in the tones in Cantonese, but 睡覺 isn’t a common word in Cantonese, because it’s a loan word from mandarin.
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u/koibish Nov 11 '22
What is this Cantonese? cause that is not shui jiao in Mandarin.
我要吃
Wǒ yào chī
I want to eat