做七
zou6 cat1zuò qī
English
- paying respects to the deceased on their seventh day
- 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
- 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