ham4 loeng6含量
Jyutpingham4 loeng6
Yalehàhm leuhng
Definition
Content; the amount or proportion of a substance contained within something.
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How it's used
Used primarily in formal or technical contexts, such as nutrition labels, scientific reports, or news about product safety. It is rarely used in casual daily conversation, where people might instead describe something as having a lot of a certain ingredient by saying 呢樣嘢好多糖 or 呢樣嘢好高糖.
Examples
The protein content of this milk powder is very high.
Do you know how much sugar content this product has?
Related words
Common mistake
Learners often mistakenly use this word to describe the quantity of physical objects, but it is strictly reserved for the concentration or proportion of a substance within a mixture or compound.
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Grammar guides
- Aspect markersCantonese has no tenses, but it does have aspect markers. Learn how zo2, gwo3, gan2, and hai2 dou6 show completion, experience, and ongoing action.
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