saan1 zaa1山楂
Jyutpingsaan1 zaa1
Yalesāan jā
Definition
Chinese hawthorn; a red, sweet-and-sour fruit often used to make haw flakes.
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How it's used
Often associated with digestive health, this fruit is frequently processed into snacks like hawthorn flakes or candied hawthorn skewers. It is rarely eaten raw due to its intense tartness, so it is almost exclusively encountered in dried or preserved forms in local markets.
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nap1粒nāpExamples
These hawthorns taste sweet and sour, very appetizing.
Do you like eating hawthorn flakes?
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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.
