嘢

嘢 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口田土弓 (RWGN), composition ⿰口野)

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 206, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 676, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5622

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 口 + phonetic 野.

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嘢

1. (Cantonese, dialectal Hakka, Zhongshan Min) thing; matter; stuff (Classifier: 樣／样 c; 家 c)

   好嘢！ [Cantonese]  ―  hou² je⁵! [Jyutping]  ―  Good stuff! Hooray!

   講人哋嘅嘢／讲人哋嘅嘢 [Cantonese]  ―  gong² jan⁴ dei⁶ ge³ je⁵ [Jyutping]  ―  to talk about other people's stuff

   你想食日本嘢定食泰國嘢啊？ [Cantonese, trad.]
   你想食日本嘢定食泰国嘢啊？ [Cantonese, simp.]

   nei⁵ soeng² sik⁶ jat⁶ bun² je⁵ ding⁶ sik⁶ taai³ gwok³ je⁵ aa³? [Jyutping]

   Do you want to eat Japanese food or Thai food?

2. (Cantonese, derogatory, always with the classifier) guy; fellow; devil (Classifier: 隻／只 c)

   你隻嘢吖！／你只嘢吖！ [Cantonese]  ―  nei⁵ zek³ je⁵ aa¹! [Jyutping]  ―  You bastard!

3. (Cantonese, euphemistic, always with the classifier) penis (Classifier: 條／条 c)
4. (Cantonese, always with the classifier) negative matters caused by or associated with someone (Classifier: 籠／笼 c; 鑊／镬 c; 壇／坛 c)

   睇穿佢籠嘢／睇穿佢笼嘢 [Cantonese]  ―  tai² cyun¹ keoi⁵ lung^4-2 je⁵ [Jyutping]  ―  to see through their schemes

5. (Cantonese, always with the classifier) age of a person, approximating in multiples of tens (only for three or above) (Classifier: 張／张 c)

   三張嘢／三张嘢 [Cantonese]  ―  saam¹ zoeng¹ je⁵ [Jyutping]  ―  thirty-odd years old

6. (Cantonese) Classifier for occurrences of events, usually negative ones.

   一嘢冚落去 [Cantonese]  ―  jat¹ je⁵ kam² lok⁶ heoi³ [Jyutping]  ―  to slap someone once

   叫咗佢唔好再捽眼，但係佢係都要捽多幾嘢㗎喎。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   叫咗佢唔好再捽眼，但系佢系都要捽多几嘢㗎㖞。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   giu³ zo² keoi⁵ m⁴ hou² zoi³ zeot¹ ngaan⁵, daan⁶ hai⁶ keoi⁵ hai⁶ dou¹ jiu³ zeot¹ do¹ gei² je⁵ gaa³ wo³. [Jyutping]

   I told him to stop rubbing his eyes, but he still goes on rubbing it a few more times.

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Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) The character is found volume 8 of the 40-volume version of the Chinese translation of the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra.

嘢

1. (Buddhism) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• “嘢”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 大般涅槃經（北本涅槃）・卷第八・如來性品第四之五 Early usage of the character in Buddhist text.