咗
Meanings
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- 1.Cantonese particle equivalent to 了[le] or 过[guò]
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Wiktionary
- 1.Used to indicate perfective aspect (i.e., the completion of an event or the undergoing of a change of state). Often implies the event happened in the past, but can also refer to events that are hypothesized/intended to be complete but not yet realized at the current moment.
- 2.A chant sound made while working.
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 左 First attested in 《散語四十章》 (1877) as 唨. This word replaces earlier 嘵／哓 (hiu¹) in standard Cantonese. Probably from 著／着 (Cheung, 1997; Chan, 1998; Fan and Chan, 2022); the pronunciation may be due to influence from Mandarin zhuó (Chan, 1998) or colloquial tonal modification to a high-rising tone (Cheung, 1997). Chan (1995) proposes that the original character is 𧇣 (MC dzuH, “to go”); others (including Jimmy Pang and Chapman Chan) have similarly proposed 徂 (MC dzu, “to go”) to be the original character. These derivations are phonologically and semantically problematic.
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