話咁快

Chinese

		spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said	(Cantonese) so	fast; quick; swift
trad. (話咁快)		話	咁	快
simp. (话咁快)		话	咁	快

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): waa⁶ gam³ faai³

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: waa⁶ gam³ faai³
  - Yale: wah gam faai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waa⁶ gam³ faai³
  - Guangdong Romanization: wa⁶ gem³ fai³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː²² kɐm³³ faːi̯³³/

Adverb

話咁快

(Cantonese) in a short amount of time
- 1985, “童年 [tóngnián]”, in 黃霑 (lyrics), 海底針 [hǎidǐzhēn], performed by 蔡國權:
  
  話咁快就到了今天　舊陣時我變了今天的我 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
  话咁快就到了今天　旧阵时我变了今天的我 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]
  waa⁶ gam³ faai³ zau⁶ dou³ liu⁵ gam¹ tin¹, gau⁶ zan⁶ si⁴ ngo⁵ bin³ liu⁵ gam¹ tin¹ dik¹ ngo⁵ [Jyutping]
  In the blink of an eye, we have arrived at the present; the me of the olden days became the me of the present

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