粵

潮ciu4州zau1音jam1樂ngok6

simp潮州音乐
ciu4 zau1 jam1 ngok6Chao2zhou1 yin1yue4

English

  1. everyone for themselves [colloquial]
  2. everyone for themselves; In Chiu Chow music, the music instrument suona sounds like "gi6 gi1 gu3 gi6 gi1", which sounds like "zi6 gei2 gu3 zi6 gei2", which means 'everyone for themselves' in Cantonese; literally: Chiu Chow music

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 歇後語,後句為「自己顧自己」;源於潮州音樂中嗩吶嘅吹奏聲聽落好似用廣東話講「自己顧自己」

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

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