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做zou6七cat1

zou6 cat1zuò qī

English

  1. paying respects to the deceased on their seventh day
  2. An old Chinese tradition that when a person died, his family need to do memorial rituals every 7 days for 7 times, the first one is "First Seven", the last one is to be done on the 49th days called "Last Seven". Literally: do seven

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 以前習俗喺人死後每隔七日喪家要喺靈前祭奠一次,超渡亡靈。整個過程共有七次,第一次叫頭七,最後一次叫尾七

Examples

  • 做足咁多個七

    to do all the traditional memorial rituals

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

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