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Feed 出面 to to-jyutping and it returns ceot1 min2. words.hk uses that reading for two senses: to handle something yourself, or in your own name; and for an act whose motive is obvious at a glance. “Outside” is written three ways, with a different tone: 出面 ceot1 min6, 出便 ceot1 bin6, 出邊 ceot1 bin6. The example is 出面好大雨. The converter offers min2 first, so playback for “outside a boundary” uses 出便.

轉左, 轉右 and 直行 have no entries of their own. to-jyutping gives zyun2 zo2, zyun2 jau6, zik6 haang4. As a verb meaning to rotate or circle, 轉 is zyun3 in words.hk. As a morpheme meaning to change or switch, it is zyun2, in compounds such as 轉變 and 轉移. The 轉 in the playback of 轉左 follows that second reading. The adjective 左 zo2 says that, when it modifies a noun, people usually say 左面 zo2 min6 and rarely 左 alone. 左面 is also written 左邊 and 左便. The same zo2 is the perfective marker, written 咗. 右面 is jau6 min6, also 右邊 and 右便. The 行 in 直行 is the first sense of 行 in words.hk: to walk, haang4.

Beside you is 隔籬 gaak3 lei4. The definition gives the literal picture: a fence between. 隔離 is the same sound, gaak3 lei4, but a verb, to isolate people or things from contact. One collocation is 隔離營. The player reads both spellings alike. For “next to”, write 隔籬.

邊度 is bin1 dou6, “what place”, with an example 邊度有廁所. 呢度 is listed as both nei1 dou6 and ni1 dou6, and also written 依度 ji1 dou6. 嗰度 is go2 dou6, also 嗰道, “over there”. Write 果度 and to-jyutping returns gwo2 dou6, which is not 嗰度. 附近 is fu6 gan6; the example asks whether there is a post office nearby. 對面 is deoi3 min6, with 馬路對面 and 對面海 as collocations.

上去 soeng5 heoi3 first means to go up. The example is hearing a noise upstairs and going up to look. The second sense in the same entry is to go from Hong Kong or Macau to mainland China. Asking the way takes the first. Hearing someone say they are going up to Shenzhen takes the second. 上嚟 has no entry; to-jyutping gives soeng5 lai4. Type 上來 and the result is soeng6 loi4.

落去 is lok6 heoi3 in both entries. The first is a suffix after a verb, meaning the action goes on; the example is keeping on hitting. The second is to move from a higher place to a lower one; the example is going downstairs to buy a newspaper. 入面 is jap6 min6, also 入邊 and 入便. 出嚟 is both ceot1 lai4 and ceot1 lei4. words.hk describes the direction as starting near the listener, moving away from the listener, and toward the speaker.

轉頭 is easy to hear as “turn your head”. words.hk defines it as a little later, zyun3 tau4, usually followed by something that will be done or will happen soon. It is not tagged as a direction. It sits with 等陣 and 一陣; see time words.

Changing trains after the gate is in transit. Naming a tunnel in a taxi is in taxis.

Sources

• LSHK Jyutping scheme
• CanCLID to-jyutping
• words.hk: 出面, 出便, 轉, 左, 左面, 右面, 行, 隔籬, 隔離, 邊度, 呢度, 嗰度, 附近, 對面, 上去, 落去, 入面, 出嚟, 轉頭