ham4 mung6酣夢酣梦
Jyutpingham4 mung6
Yalehàhm muhng
Definition
To be in a deep, sweet sleep; to dream pleasantly.
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How it's used
Literary and poetic in nature, this term is rarely used in casual, everyday speech. It carries a sense of peaceful, undisturbed rest that goes beyond the simple act of sleeping. You will mostly encounter it in written descriptions or formal contexts rather than when talking to friends about your night.
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a sweet dream
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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.
