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Cantonese · Jyutping

Mandarin · Pinyin

  • miē

English

  1. the bleating of sheep
  2. the bleating of sheep
  3. (adverb) what?
  4. used to form yes-no questions and to indicate doubt, challenge or surprise; uttered in a short and abrupt manner
  5. interrogative pronoun: what, who, when, etc.; contraction of 乜嘢 mat1 je5
  6. the bleat of a sheep or goat, equivalent to the use of "baa" in English
  7. (Cant.) an interrogative particle
  8. final particle which transforms statements into questions that indicate doubt or surprise (Cantonese)
  9. used in rhetorical questions to express negation; uttered with a high-falling tone and could be prolonged
  10. used to replace a syllable, a word or a number which the speaker has forgotten or chooses to omit
  11. when placed before a word, indicates that the speaker can hardly remember or is rather unwilling to mention it (perhaps out of disdain)
  12. used as a euphemism to substitute something that one is unwilling to say (often something taboo, embarrassing, inappropriate, etc.)
  13. universal quantifier: "every"

粵語

  1. 用嚟構成是非問句，表示疑問、質疑、驚訝，讀起嚟語調短促
  2. 疑問代詞；「乜嘢」嘅合音
  3. 羊嘅叫聲
  4. 用喺反詰問句，帶有否定嘅口氣，會讀成高降調，可以拉長
  5. 講出數字或文字嗰陣，用以代替唔記得、唔識讀、講唔出嘅數字、文字或者音節
  6. 當擺喺一個詞前，表示嗰樣嘢印象模糊，記憶需時，又或者不屑提起
  7. 用嚟代替一啲唔想講出嚟（通常係唔適宜講明，可能係社會禁忌或者令人尷尬嘅）嘅字眼
  8. 全稱疑問詞，意思係「所有」

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