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散更鑼 (saan3 gaang1 lo4) — verb; alert or alarm sound from the night watch from 5am, to wake people up (used before clocks were introduced in China). It means it is very noisy, need everyone to know in Cantonese

saan˗₃散gaangˉ¹更loˎ₄鑼
简 散更锣
Mandarin Pinyin: san4 geng1 luo2

Meaning of 散更鑼

nounverb; alert or alarm sound from the night watch from 5am, to wake people up (used before clocks were introduced in China). It means it is very noisy, need everyone to know

Characters in 散更鑼

散saan3
distribute; disseminate; spread
更gang1
a watch period (one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided starting at 7pm)
鑼lo4
gong

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