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喊 has two entries in words.hk, both haam3. The first is tagged a morpheme: to speak loudly, to shout, near synonym 嗌. The collocations are 吶喊, 喊欄, 喊驚 and 喊打喊殺. The English for 喊欄 is yelling a final sale before the shop closes. The English for 喊驚 is a rite of shouting a person’s name to call the soul back. The second entry is the verb: tears from strong feeling, mostly a negative one. The collocations are 喊包, 大喊十 and 喊苦喊忽. The first two are glossed crybaby. The example is a request not to cry.

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喊 has two entries in words.hk, both haam3. The first is tagged a morpheme: to speak loudly, to shout, near synonym 嗌. The collocations are 吶喊, 喊欄, 喊驚 and 喊打喊殺. The English for 喊欄 is yelling a final sale before the shop closes. The English for 喊驚 is a rite of shouting a person’s name to call the soul back. The second entry is the verb: tears from strong feeling, mostly a negative one. The collocations are 喊包, 大喊十 and 喊苦喊忽. The first two are glossed crybaby. The example is a request not to cry.

喊

haam3

The three senses of 得意 dak1 ji3 sit on one entry: cute, interesting or special, and strange. The examples are a cute child, a rather interesting idea, and a person who seems quite peculiar. 得戚 appears in the see-also list. It has no entry. to-jyutping gives dak1 cik1. None of the three senses is self-satisfaction.

得意

dak1 ji3

開心 hoi1 sam1 is happy. The example is winning third prize in the Mark Six and shouting with joy. The collocation 「有啲唔開心」 is marked as a bit unhappy. 唔開心 has no page. to-jyutping gives m4 hoi1 sam1.

開心

hoi1 sam1

過癮 gwo3 jan5 has two senses. One is interesting and pleasant. The examples are a film and a game. The other is satisfying, done to one’s heart’s content. The example is singing for three hours straight.

過癮

gwo3 jan5

嬲 nau1 is a verb: anger, wanting to scold someone, or shouting at a person or a thing. One example uses the progressive: the person is still angry. 發嬲 faat3 nau1 is to start feeling that anger. The example says the whole face goes red as soon as it starts.

嬲

nau1

發嬲

faat3 nau1

悶 mun6 also has two senses. One is that a thing has no interest. The example is a television programme. The other is that a person feels bored and cannot raise any enthusiasm. 冇癮 is in the see-also list and has no page. to-jyutping gives mou5 jan5.

驚 geng1 is first to be afraid. The collocations include 驚鬼 and 得人驚, and the example is being afraid of one’s wife. The second sense is to worry, used to bring up a bad outcome one hopes will not happen. The example is fearing that the work cannot be finished.

驚

geng1

怕醜 is also written 怕羞, both paa3 cau2. The explanation is feeling tense and ill at ease in front of other people, especially a 生保人. 生保 is also written 生埗, saang1 bou2: unfamiliar, strange. The collocations are 生保人, 生保地方 and 生保牀.

怕醜

paa3 cau2

生保

saang1 bou2

心急 sam1 gap1 is not wanting to wait any longer, wanting the expected thing sooner. The collocation is 等得好心急.

心急

sam1 gap1

As a verb, 氹 is tam3, with the variant characters 𠱁 and 𧨾. The first sense is to cheer someone up with words or actions, or to get them to stop being angry or worried. The second is to coax someone into doing something. The collocation is 氹人入局. A separate noun entry is tam5, also written 凼: water gathered in a hollow, collocation 水氹. That same entry also means a trap. to-jyutping reads the character 氹 as tam5 first. The player uses the variant 𠱁, which matches the verb.

𠱁

tam3

淡定, 火滾 and 心淡 have no entries. to-jyutping gives daam6 ding6, fo2 gwan2 and sam1 taam5. These three pages do not say what they mean.

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Jyutping uses the same CanCLID to-jyutping data as the converter. Audio is one mp3 per syllable. Where Words.hk and the clip differ, the post writes both readings.