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男兒膝下有黃金 (naam4 ji4 sat1 haa6 jau5 wong4 gam1) — a man should not be quick to bow his knees in Cantonese

naamˎ₄男jiˎ₄兒satˉ¹膝haaˍ₆下jauˏ₅有wongˎ₄黃gamˉ¹金
简 男儿膝下有黃金
Mandarin Pinyin: nan2 er2 xi1 xia4 you3 huang2 jin1

Meaning of 男兒膝下有黃金

nouna man should not be quick to bow his knees

Characters in 男兒膝下有黃金

男naam4
human male; man; boy; son
兒ji4
final particle / suffix, placed after many commonly used nouns to avoid employing one-syllable terms in speech (very common in the Beijing dialect 北京話, see: 兒化, 兒化韻)
膝sat1
knee
下haa6
formulate; work out; set down
有jau5
there is; exist; be present
黃wong4
Kangxi radical 201
金gam1
a Chinese family name

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