Common Tone Mistakes - Cantonese Help sheets

Last updated July 7, 2009

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	Common Tone Mistakes
Common words that need to be spoken carefully. To add to this page please post to this forum thread.

　

My bill, please	埋單	maai4 daan1	to buy eggs	買蛋	maai5 daan2
culture	文化	man4 faa3	to smell flowers	聞花	man4 faa1
cigarette lighter	打火機	daa2 fo2 gei1	beat up the waiter	打火記	daa2 fo2 gei3 粵
hungry	肚餓	tou5 ngo6	diarrhoea	肚屙	tou5 ngo1 粵
summer holiday	暑假	syu2 gaa3	book shelf	書架	syu1 gaa2
charity	慈善	ci4 sin6	you're crazy!	黐線	ci1 sin3 粵

　

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