mun5 jyut6滿月满月
Jyutpingmun5 jyut6
Yalemúhn yuht
Definition
To reach one month of age, especially of a newborn baby.
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How it's used
Celebrations for this milestone are culturally significant, often involving the distribution of ginger vinegar or hosting a banquet known as 滿月酒. It marks the end of the traditional postpartum confinement period for the mother. While it specifically refers to the one month mark, it is almost exclusively used in the context of infants.
Examples
The baby will be one month old next week, remember to come to the banquet.
Common phrases
full-month celebration banquet
celebrate the one-month milestone
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Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
