乾塘

Chinese

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

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): gon¹ tong⁴

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)

(Cantonese, dialectal Gan, dialectal Hakka) to dry up a pond
(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 fu¹ gon¹ tong⁴. [Jyutping]
The treasury almost dries up.

Related terms

見底／见底 (jiàndǐ, “to reach the bottom”)

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