粵

白baak6話waa2

simp白话
baak6 waa2bái huà

English

  1. spoken language
  2. vernacular style; similar to how people normally say things
  3. vernacular
  4. Cantonese ("the vernacular"), which is how the language is referred to in Guangdong and Guangxi.

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 相對文言,平時我哋講嘢嘅方法
  2. 粵語嘅另一個叫法。喺香港叫當地嘅粵語做廣東話;喺廣東同廣西,大部份人都叫做白話。

Examples

  • 白話文

    Baihua; vernacular writing; usually refers to Modern Written Chinese ----

  • 南寧白話

    Nanning Cantonese

  • 點解你啱嚟廣州白話就講得咁好呢?

    Why do you speak Cantonese so well when you just came to Canton?

    Tatoeba · LeeSooHa CC BY

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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