Translingual

Han character

啫 (radical 30 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口十大日 (RJKA), composition ⿰口者)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 201, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 1, page 636, character 4
• Unihan data for U+556B

Chinese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Particle

啫

1. (Cantonese) sentence final particle: only; just; simply; merely

   你冇女朋友？梗係唔信啦！……或者有。你唔知啫。 [Cantonese, trad.]

   你冇女朋友？梗系唔信啦！……或者有。你唔知啫。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   From: 陳慧嫻, 紅茶館

   Nei⁵ mou⁵ neoi⁵ pang⁴ jau⁵? Gang² hai⁶ m⁴ seon³ laa¹!...... Waak⁶ ze² jau⁵. Nei⁵ m⁴ zi¹ze¹. [Jyutping]

   You don't have a girlfriend? Of course I don't believe you! ... Maybe you do have one, but you just don't know it.

Synonyms

• (Mandarin) 而已 (éryǐ)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

啫

1. (Cantonese) (childish) ****

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Definitions

啫

1. Only used in 啫喱／啫哩 (“jelly”).