sip3涉
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Yalesip
Definition
To wade through or ford water.
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How it's used
This character is primarily a literary morpheme and is rarely used as a standalone verb in casual spoken Cantonese. It is almost exclusively found in formal compounds or set phrases like 涉水 or 涉及. When describing the physical act of walking through water, speakers usually prefer descriptive phrases like 行過水潭 or 踩水.
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Common mistake
Do not use this word in everyday conversation to mean walking through a puddle or shallow water, as it sounds overly dramatic or archaic. It is reserved for formal writing or specific contexts involving crossing natural bodies of water.
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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.
