din1甸
Jyutpingdin1
Yaledīn
Definition
Used in transliterations.
neutralplaces
How it's used
Primarily serves as a phonetic character for foreign place names or regions in Cantonese. It lacks any independent semantic meaning in modern daily speech and is almost exclusively encountered within specific proper nouns.
Examples
Do you know where Myanmar is?
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
