起尾注

Chinese

		to rise; to raise; to get up	tail	to inject; to pour into; to concentrate to inject; to pour into; to concentrate; to pay attention; to note; to comment on; to record; to register; to annotate
trad. (起尾注)		起	尾	注
simp. #(起尾注)		起	尾	注

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hei² mei⁵ zyu³

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hei² mei⁵ zyu³
    • Yale: héi méih jyu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hei² mei⁵ dzy³
    • Guangdong Romanization: héi² méi⁵ ju³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hei̯³⁵ mei̯¹³ t͡syː³³/

Verb

起⫽尾注 (verb-object) (Cantonese)

1. (gambling) to cheat by letting one win in previous rounds and then suffer heavy losses in the last round
2. (figuratively) to cheat someone
   • 1996, 大內密探零零發 [Forbidden City Cop], spoken by Emperor (張達明 [Cheung Tat-ming]):

     噉你係我親信吖嘛，而且係人都知你又專一又錫老婆，包你唔會起我尾注。呢個任務非你莫屬呀。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     噉你系我亲信吖嘛，而且系人都知你又专一又锡老婆，包你唔会起我尾注。呢个任务非你莫属呀。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     gam² nei⁵ hai⁶ ngo⁵ can¹ seon³ a¹ maa³, ji⁴ ce² hai⁶ jan⁴ dou¹ zi¹ nei⁵ jau⁶ zyun¹ jat¹ jau⁶ sek³ lou⁵ po⁴, baau¹ nei⁵ m⁴ wui⁵ hei² ngo⁵ mei⁵ zyu³. ni¹ go³ jam⁶ mou⁶ fei¹ nei⁵ mok⁶ suk⁶ a³. [Jyutping]

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