Cantonese

See also: cantonese

English

Etymology

Canton +‎ -ese

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kæn.təˈniːz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kæn.təˈniz/
• Rhymes: -iːz

Adjective

Cantonese (not comparable)

1. Relating to the city of Guangzhou (Canton) or the province of Guangdong.
2. Relating to Cantonese people.
3. Relating to Cantonese language.
4. Relating to Cantonese food/cuisine.

Translations

relating to Canton

• Arabic: كَانْتُونِيّ m (kāntūniyy), كَنْتُونِيّ m (kantūniyy)
• Burmese: လက်တို (my) (laktui), အင်္ကျီတို (angkyitui)
• Catalan: cantonès (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 廣東嘅／广东嘅 (yue) (gwong² dung¹ ge³)

• Dutch: Kantonees (nl)
• Finnish: kantonilainen
• French: cantonais (fr)
• Galician: cantonés
• German: kantonesisch (de)
• Italian: cantonese (it)
• Japanese: 広東の (Kanton no)
• Korean: 광동(廣東)의 (Gwangdong-ui)
• Macedonian: кантонски (kantonski)
• Malay: Kanton
• Polish: kantoński (pl)
• Portuguese: cantonês (pt)
• Russian: канто́нский (ru) (kantónskij), гуанду́нский (guandúnskij)
• Spanish: cantonés (es)
• Swedish: kantonesisk (sv)
• Tagalog: Kantones

relating to the Cantonese people

• Burmese: လက်တိုလူမျိုး (laktuilu-myui:), အင်္ကျီတိုလူမျိုး (angkyituilu-myui:)
• Catalan: cantonès (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 廣東人／广东人 (gwong² dung¹ jan⁴)

• Dutch: Kantonees (nl)
• Finnish: kantonilainen
• French: cantonais (fr)
• German: kantonesisch (de)
• Italian: cantonese (it)
• Japanese: 広東人の (Kantonjin no)
• Korean: 광동(廣東)사람 (Gwangdongsaram)
• Macedonian: ка́нтонски (kántonski)
• Malay: orang Kanton, Kanton
• Polish: kantoński (pl)
• Portuguese: cantonês (pt)
• Russian: канто́нский (ru) (kantónskij)
• Spanish: cantonés (es)
• Swedish: kantonesisk (sv)
• Tagalog: Kantones

relating to the Cantonese language

• Arabic: كَانْتُونِيَّة f (kāntūniyya), كَنْتُونِيَّة f (kantūniyya)
• Burmese: လက်တိုစကား (laktuica.ka:), အင်္ကျီတိုစကား (angkyituica.ka:)
• Catalan: cantonès (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 廣東話／广东话 (gwong² dung¹ waa²), 粵語／粤语 (yue) (jyut⁶ jyu⁵)

• Dutch: Kantonees (nl)
• Finnish: kantoninkielinen
• French: cantonais (fr)
• German: kantonesisch (de)
• Italian: cantonese (it)
• Japanese: 広東語の (ja) (Kantongo no)
• Korean: 광동어(廣東語) (ko) (Gwangdong'eo), 광동(廣東)말 (Gwangdongmal)
• Macedonian: кантонски (kantonski)
• Malay: bahasa Kanton, bahasa Kantonis, Kantonis
• Polish: kantoński (pl)
• Portuguese: cantonês (pt)
• Russian: канто́нский (ru) (kantónskij)
• Slovene: kantonski
• Spanish: cantonés (es)
• Swedish: kantonesisk (sv)
• Tagalog: Kantones

Noun

Cantonese (countable and uncountable, plural Cantonese)

1. (countable) An inhabitant of Canton; a person of Canton descent.
   • 2000, Stella Dong, Shanghai The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City‎^[1], HarperCollins, page 85:

     The alliance was headed by a mustached Cantonese with a broad face, piercing eyes, and a great sympathy for the poor and downtrodden, a man who reveled in "action at all costs and whatever the risks." This was Sun Yat-sen, a visionary who lacked practical political skills but nonetheless became the hallowed "Father of the Republic" upon his death.

2. (uncountable) A Sinitic language mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of Mainland China, Guangdong (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia and by many overseas Chinese worldwide.
   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10:

     As a mainland China national, the counter for our trial was fluent in English, Putonghua, and the Sichuan dialect, and was familiar with a number of other major Chinese languages such as Cantonese and Hakka.

3. (uncountable) A dialect of the Cantonese language, spoken in Guangzhou (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, and treated as the standard dialect of the Cantonese language.

Synonyms

• (language): Yue Chinese, Yue, Cantonese language, Cantonese dialect
• (dialect): Cantonese dialect, Cantonese language

Hyponyms

(language):

• Cantonese, Cantonese dialect (the dialect of Cantonese language treated as standard)
• Hoisanese/Toisanese/Taishanese (the Cantonese subdialect spoken in the Greater Hoi San area, with subsubdialects)
• Hong Kong Cantonese (the dialect spoken in Hong Kong and Macau)

Translations

person from Canton

• Arabic: كَانْتُونِيّ m (kantūniyy), كَانْتُونِيَّة f (kantūniyya)
• Catalan: cantonès (ca) m, cantonesa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 廣東人／广东人 (gwong² dung¹ jan⁴), 廣州人／广州人 (gwong² zau¹ jan⁴)

  Mandarin: 廣東人／广东人 (zh) (Guǎngdōngrén), 廣州人／广州人 (guǎngzhōurén)

• Dutch: Kantonees (nl) m, Kantonese f
• Finnish: kantonilainen
• French: Cantonais (fr) m, Cantonaise f
• Galician: cantonés m
• German: Kantonese m, Kantonesin f
• Italian: cantonese (it) m or f
• Japanese: 広東人 (かんとんじん, Kantonjin)
• Korean: 광동(廣東)사람 (Gwangdongsaram)
• Macedonian: Кантонец m (Kantonec), Кантонка f (Kantonka)
• Malay: orang Kanton, Kanton
• Polish: kantończyk (pl) m, kantonka (pl) f
• Portuguese: cantonês (pt) m
• Russian: канто́нец m (kantónec), канто́нка f (kantónka)
• Spanish: cantonés (es) m, cantonesa f
• Swedish: kantones c
• Tagalog: Kantones
• Thai: ชาวจีนกวางตุ้ง (chaao-jiin-gwaang-dtûng), คนกวางตุ้ง (kon-gwaang-dtûng)

language

• Arabic: كَانْتُونِيَّة f (kantūniyya)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: cantonès (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 廣東話／广东话 (gwong² dung¹ waa²), 粵語／粤语 (yue) (jyut⁶ jyu⁵), 廣府話／广府话 (gwong² fu² waa²), 白話／白话 (baak⁶ waa^6-2)

  Hakka: 廣東話／广东话 (Kóng-tûng-fa), 粵語／粤语 (Ie̍t-ngî)

  Hokkien: 廣東話／广东话 (Kńg-tang-oē)

  Mandarin: 粵語／粤语 (zh) (yuèyǔ), 廣東話／广东话 (zh) (guǎngdōnghuà)

• Corsican: cantonese m, cantunese m
• Czech: kantonština f
• Danish: kantonesisk (da)
• Dutch: Kantonees (nl) n
• Finnish: kantoninkiina (fi)
• French: cantonais (fr) m
• Galician: cantonés m
• German: Kantonesisch (de) n
• Greek: καντονέζικα (el) n pl (kantonézika)
• Irish: Cantainis f
• Italian: cantonese (it) m
• Japanese: 広東語 (ja) (かんとんご, Kantongo) 粤語 (ja) (えつご, Etsugo)
• Khmer: ភាសាចិនកាតាំង (phiesaa cən kaataŋ)
• Korean: 광둥어 (Gwangdung'eo), 광동어(廣東語) (ko) (Gwangdong'eo), 월어(粵語) (Woreo)
• Macedonian: ка́нтонски m (kántonski)
• Malay: bahasa Kanton, bahasa Kantonis, Kantonis
• Marathi: कँटोनीझ f (kĕṇṭonījh)
• Norman: Chinnouais d'Canton m
• Polish: kantoński (pl) m
• Portuguese: cantonês (pt) m
• Russian: канто́нский язы́к m (kantónskij jazýk), канто́нский (ru) m (kantónskij), ю́э (ru) m (júe)
• Slovene: kantonščina f
• Spanish: cantonés (es) m
• Swedish: kantonesiska (sv)
• Tagalog: Kantones
• Thai: ภาษาจีนกวางตุ้ง (th) (paa-sǎa-jiin-gwaang-dtûng)
• Turkish: Kantonca
• Vietnamese: tiếng Quảng Đông (vi)
• West Frisian: Kantoneesk n
• Yiddish: קאַנטאָנעזיש n (kantonezish)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Cantonese terms
• Appendix:Cantonese Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Cantonese
• Guangdong
• Guangzhou
• Guangzhouese, Guangzhounese

Further reading

• ISO 639-3 code yue (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Yue, yue ⁠

Anagrams

• Caen stone