pronoun

Meanings

  1. 1 he; she; it (Cantonese third-person pronoun)

Examples

Qú shì shéi?
Who is he?
Yuèyǔ lǐ, qú deih shì " tāmen " de yìsi.
In Cantonese, 佢哋 means 'they'.

Tips

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A Cantonese word, not Mandarin. It is the everyday third-person pronoun in Guangdong and Hong Kong speech — the rough equivalent of Mandarin / / . Add to make it plural ('they'). The Mandarin reading qú is rarely heard; in Cantonese it sounds like 'keui'.

Components

radical
dānrénpáng
person (left-side form of 人)
The person radical, side form of . It marks this as a word about a human — appropriate for a personal pronoun referring to someone.
phonetic
huge; giant
Supplies the shape and a loose sound link. Standalone means 'huge'; here it carries no meaning, only serving as the writable body the Cantonese pronoun was built on.

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