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White Rice in Cantonese
How to say it
White Rice in Cantonese is 白飯, written baak6 faan6 in Jyutping.
baak6is tone 6, a low level tonefaan6is tone 6, a low level tone
The digits are tones, not stress. Change the number and you change the word, so they are worth learning as part of the syllable rather than as an afterthought.
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