cantonese
காண்டோனீஸ்
definition
noun
We restricted the study to individuals belonging to the two major dialect groups of Chinese in Singapore: the Hokkiens and the Cantonese .
a native or inhabitant of Canton.
Our local tour guide speaks Chinese (both Cantonese and putonghua), and he says that he has sufficient demand to keep busy every day of the week.
a form of Chinese spoken mainly in southeastern China (including Hong Kong).
adjective
The Cantonese dialect created the unique culture exemplified by Stephen Chow, and this is our pride.
of or relating to Canton (Guangzhou), its inhabitants, their dialect, or their cuisine.
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Fifty bucks buys excellent widescreen transfers, English and 'Cantonese' soundtracks, subtitles and commentary by the director.
Then he worked in Hangzhou from 1986 to 1988 but he still came back to Shanghai once or twice every month - just for the genuine 'Cantonese' dishes in the Shanghai Friendship Restaurant.
Neither of the pair spoke the other's language - one spoke 'Cantonese' , the other spoke the Colombian dialect of Spanish.
‘That's what I want to know as well,’ he says in a strong 'Cantonese' accent, using the same dry English wit that has earned him comparisons to Peter Sellers.
‘The 'Cantonese' only expected to seek his fortune in Dalian and to marry his girlfriend, who was said to work in a department store in Shanghai,’ Wang said.
The 'Cantonese' dialect created the unique culture exemplified by Stephen Chow, and this is our pride.
In 1932, a 'Cantonese' named Lu Geng, along with a British national, set up a joint venture with the manager of an American-based mortgage company.
The 'Cantonese' have a saying: ‘We eat everything on the ground with four legs except tables and chairs.’
But on the sad side, we are not given the chance to experience the film in its native 'Cantonese' .
Thus the 'Cantonese' like to have it boiled in soup with pork meat.
In 'Cantonese' , the number eight is pronounced as ‘fat’ which means fortune.
But to this day, sometimes when I have Cantonese takeout, I also suffer a flashback echo of Mr. R (no fault of the 'Cantonese' , of course).
she's a 'Cantonese'
The Shanghai crowds booed during the flying scenes, which Western audiences likened to classical ballet, while a major talking point invisible to the rest of us was the 'Cantonese' actors' attempts at delivering the Mandarin dialogue.
he's 'Cantonese'
According to Wong Kam-man, owner and chef of Lao Yo Chih, the 'Cantonese' add eggs to the flour dough to make the skin more chewy.
His father was Lee Hoi-Chuen, a successful actor and 'Cantonese' opera performer.
American-born Locke, whose 'Cantonese' grandfather once worked as a house servant in Washington, called for closer ties between Beijing and Washington and freer trade relations.
It has been said that the 'Cantonese' can even distinguish a northern ‘mutton-eater’ by smell.
Some West Coast and Hawaiian galleries take additional steps to ensure success with this market by hiring multilingual consultants who speak Japanese, 'Cantonese' or Mandarin Chinese.
Beyond that, one theory from Canton states that the inventor was Hung Hsiu-Ch'uan, the 'Cantonese' who led a rebellion and proclaimed himself Emperor of Nanking.
The majority of the population in Hong Kong is Chinese and speaks 'Cantonese' , a dialect of Chinese, as the language for daily communication.
My girlfriend almost always opts for 'Cantonese' style something or other, and on this occasion it was Lemon Chicken, again with egg fried rice.
The founder of Wing On was a 'Cantonese' man surnamed Kwok, spelt Guo in Mandarin.
As more and more 'Cantonese' come to places like Shanghai, snake has grown in popularity.
Fluent in Mandarin, she was able to operate among the Hong Kong residents, who mainly speak 'Cantonese' .
So the 'Cantonese' and others enjoy snake as part of their cuisine.
At Canton, however, the foreigners had no choice; the 'Cantonese' would not let them inside, and so they had no opportunity to discover that perhaps here as elsewhere they would rather be outside.
His 'Cantonese' wasn't very good, so whenever he taught a lesson we had to struggle to try and understand what he was saying.
The striking thing about Guangzhou is that it is no longer the home of the 'Cantonese' .
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