tong4棠
Jyutpingtong4
Yaletòhng
Definition
Cherry apple or wild plum.
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How it's used
The character 棠 is rarely used in isolation to refer to a specific fruit in modern Cantonese. It appears almost exclusively as part of the compound 海棠, which refers to the flowering begonia or crabapple. It is often associated with traditional aesthetics and literary descriptions of flowers.
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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.
