The ASJP Database - Wordlist Cantonese

Wordlist Cantonese

Compiled by Cecil H. Brown and Søren Wichmann

Showing 1 to 100 of 108 entries

No.	Meaning	Concepticon	Word	Loan

1	I	I	No	False
2	you	THOU	nei dei	False
3	we	WE	No dei	False
4	this	THIS	nigo	False
5	that	THAT	go go	False
6	who	WHO	bin go	False
7	what	WHAT	mat ye	False
7	what	WHAT	me ye	False
8	not	NOT	m	False
9	all	ALL	gogo dou	False
10	many	MANY	hou do	False
11	one	ONE	yat	False
12	two	TWO	yi	False
13	big	BIG	dai	False
14	long	LONG	cEN	False
15	small	SMALL	sai	False
16	woman	WOMAN	neui yan	False
17	man	MAN	nam yan	False
18	person	PERSON	yan	False
19	fish	FISH	yi	False
20	bird	BIRD	jeuk jai	False
21	dog	DOG	gau	False
22	louse	LOUSE	sat na	False
23	tree	TREE	si	False
24	seed	SEED	juN ji	False
25	leaf	LEAF	si yip	False
26	root	ROOT	gan	False
27	bark	BARK	si pei	False
28	skin	SKIN	pei fu	False
29	flesh	FLESH	yuk	False
30	blood	BLOOD	hy~ut	False
31	bone	BONE	gw~at	False
32	grease	FAT (ORGANIC SUBSTANCE)	yau	False
33	egg	EGG	dan	False
34	horn	HORN (ANATOMY)	gok	False
35	tail	TAIL	mei	False
36	feather	FEATHER	jEk mou	False
37	hair	HAIR	tau fat	False
38	head	HEAD	tau	False
39	ear	EAR	yi cai	False
40	eye	EYE	Nan	False
41	nose	NOSE	bei go	False
42	mouth	MOUTH	hau	False
42	mouth	MOUTH	jeui	False
43	tooth	TOOTH	Na	False
44	tongue	TONGUE	lei	False
45	claw	CLAW	jau	False
46	foot	FOOT	gEk	False
47	knee	KNEE	sat tau go	False
48	hand	HAND	sau	False
49	belly	BELLY	tou	False
50	neck	NECK	geN	False
51	breast	BREAST	nin	False
51	breast	BREAST	nai	False
52	heart	HEART	sam	False
53	liver	LIVER	gon	False
53	liver	LIVER	yeun	False
54	drink	DRINK	yam	False
55	eat	EAT	sik	False
56	bite	BITE	Nau	False
57	see	SEE	tai	False
58	hear	HEAR	teN gin	False
59	know	KNOW	ji dou	False
60	sleep	SLEEP	fan gau	False
61	die	DIE	sei	False
62	kill	KILL	sat	False
63	swim	SWIM	yauh seui	False
64	fly	FLY (MOVE THROUGH AIR)	fei	False
65	walk	WALK	haN	False
66	come	COME	lei	False
66	come	COME	lai	False
67	lie	LIE (REST)	fan dai	False
68	sit	SIT	co	False
69	stand	STAND	kei	False
70	give	GIVE	bei	False
71	say	SAY	goN	False
71	say	SAY	wa	False
72	sun	SUN	yat tau	False
72	sun	SUN	tai yeN	False
73	moon	MOON	yut gw~oN	False
74	star	STAR	siN	False
75	water	WATER	sEi	False
76	rain	RAINING OR RAIN	yi	False
77	stone	STONE	sek	False
78	sand	SAND	sa	False
79	earth	EARTH (SOIL)	dei	False
80	cloud	CLOUD	wan	False
81	smoke	SMOKE (EXHAUST)	yin	False
82	fire	FIRE	fo	False
83	ash	ASH	fui	False
84	burn	BURN	siu	False
85	path	PATH	lo	False
86	mountain	MOUNTAIN	san	False
87	red	RED	huN	False
88	green	GREEN	luk	False
89	yellow	YELLOW	woN	False
90	white	WHITE	bak	False
91	black	BLACK	hak	False
92	night	NIGHT	ye man	False
92	night	NIGHT	ye man hak	False

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Glottocode: yuec1235
ISO 639-3: yue

Coordinates WGS84

23°N, 113°E
23.00, 113.00

number of speakers	84,891,570
status	alive

Classification

WALS: ST > Chinese
Glottolog: Sino Tibetan > Sinitic > Classical Middle Modernsinitic > Middle Modernsinitic > Yue Pinghua
Ethnologue: Sino Tibetan > Chinese

Sources

Huang 1970: Cantonese dictionary. New Haven: Yale University Press.; Liam Doherty, p.c.