zyut3絶绝
Jyutpingzyut3
Yalejyut
Definition
To sever or cut off; also meaning absolutely, extremely, or hopeless.
- to sever; to cut off; to terminate
- hopeless; desperate
- matchless; peerless; unique
- extremely; absolutely
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How it's used
Functions as a versatile intensifier in colloquial speech to describe something that is peak quality or uniquely impressive. It often appears in the structure 絕到爆 to emphasize that something is beyond comparison. When used to mean severing, it carries a sense of finality that is much stronger than simply ending a relationship.
Related words
Common phrases
to break off a friendship
heartless
Common mistake
Do not confuse the colloquial use as an intensifier with the formal meaning of extinction or termination. Using it to describe a person as arrogant can sound unnatural unless used in specific set phrases like 絕情.
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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.
