好……唔……

好……唔……

Chinese

		good; well; be fond of			hold in mouth; bite; (Cant.) no/not
simp. and trad. (好……唔……)		好	…	…	唔	…	…

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hou²...m⁴...

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hou²...m⁴...
    • Yale: hóu...m4...
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hou²...m⁴...
    • Guangdong Romanization: hou²...m⁴...
    • IPA ^(key): /hou̯³⁵ m̩²¹ /

Phrase

好……唔……

1. (Cantonese) when doing something, not doing what is sensible

   好講唔講，講人哋屋企人 [Cantonese, trad.]
   好讲唔讲，讲人哋屋企人 [Cantonese, simp.]

   hou² gong² m⁴ gong², gong² jan⁴ dei⁶ uk¹ kei⁵ jan⁴ [Jyutping]

   of all the things [you, he, she, they] could talk about, [you, ...] had to talk about someone else's family

   好食唔食，食呢啲？ [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   Hou² sik⁶ m⁴ sik⁶, sik⁶ ni¹ di¹? [Jyutping]

   you could eat anything but you decided to eat this?

   好瞓唔瞓，瞓地下 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   hou² fan³ m⁴ fan³, fan³ dei⁶ haa^6-2 [Jyutping]

   to sleep on the floor, of all places

Derived terms

好噏唔噏