noun #17,869

Meanings

  1. 1 thing
  2. 2 stuff (Cantonese)

Examples

Nǐ yào mǎi miē yě?
What do you want to buy? (Cantonese usage)
Yǒu hǎo yě jièshào gěi nǐ.
I have something good to recommend to you. (Cantonese usage)

Tips

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is a Cantonese dialect word equivalent to Mandarin 东西 (dōngxi, thing/stuff). You'll encounter it in Hong Kong and Guangdong. (miēyě) = what? (hǎoyě) = good stuff.

Components

radical
kǒu
mouth
Left mouth radical marks as something spoken - the character was coined in Cantonese to write the colloquial morpheme yě 'thing, stuff,' and the mouth flag tells you it lives in speech, not in literary writing. Same family logic as , , .
phonetic
wild; open field
Right side carries the sound yě exactly - a textbook clean borrowing with no tone shift. contributes no meaning here; it was picked purely because its reading matched the Cantonese colloquial word for 'thing.'

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