話咁快

Chinese

		spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said	(Cantonese) so	fast; quick; swift
trad. (話咁快)		話	咁	快
simp. (话咁快)		话	咁	快

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waa⁶ gam³ faai³

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waa⁶ gam³ faai³
    • Yale: wah gam faai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waa⁶ gam³ faai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: wa⁶ gem³ fai³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː²² kɐm³³ faːi̯³³/

Adverb

話咁快

1. (Cantonese) in a short amount of time
   • 1985, “童年 [tóngnián]”, in 黃霑 (lyrics), 海底針 [hǎidǐzhēn], performed by 蔡國權:

     話咁快就到了今天　舊陣時我變了今天的我 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     话咁快就到了今天　旧阵时我变了今天的我 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     waa⁶ gam³ faai³ zau⁶ dou³ liu⁵ gam¹ tin¹, gau⁶ zan⁶ si⁴ ngo⁵ bin³ liu⁵ gam¹ tin¹ dik¹ ngo⁵ [Jyutping]

     In the blink of an eye, we have arrived at the present; the me of the olden days became the me of the present