乾塘

Chinese

		dry; to dry up	pond
trad. (乾塘)		乾	塘
simp. (干塘)		干	塘

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gon¹ tong⁴

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gon¹ tong⁴
    • Yale: gōn tòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gon¹ tong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: gon¹ tong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːn⁵⁵ tʰɔːŋ²¹/

Verb

乾⫽塘 (verb-object)

1. (Cantonese, dialectal Gan, dialectal Hakka) to dry up a pond
2. (Cantonese, figurative) to be broke; to be penniless

   庫房近乎乾塘。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   库房近乎干塘。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   fu³ fong⁴ gan⁶ fu⁴ gon¹ tong⁴. [Jyutping]

   The treasury almost dries up.

Related terms

• 見底／见底 (jiàndǐ, “to reach the bottom”)