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Translingual
Han character
𫬃 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+13, 16 strokes, composition ⿰口話)
- (Cantonese) it is said
References
Chinese
Etymology
Grammaticalization of 話 / 话 (waa6), with the tone change associated with its use as an evidential marker. May be an ancestor of 啝 (wo4), 喎 / 㖞 (wo5) as well as 喎 / 㖞 (wo3).[1]
Pronunciation
Definitions
𫬃
- (19th century Cantonese) Sentence-final modal particle used for reported speech; it is said.
話佢少佢銀𫬃。 [Cantonese, trad.]
话佢少佢银𫬃。 [Cantonese, simp.]- From: Williams, Samuel Wells (1856) A tonic dictionary of the Chinese language in the Canton dialect[1]
- waa6 keoi5 siu2 keoi5 ngan4 waa2.
- They said each had the other’s money.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Yap, F. H., Yang, Y., & Wong, T. (2014). "8 On the Development of Sentence Final Particles (and Utterance Tags) in Chinese". In Discourse Functions at the Left and Right Periphery. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. DOI: 10.1163/9789004274822_009
