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words.hk reads 掣 as zai3: a device that switches a machine or controls how it runs, measure 個 or 粒. Collocations include 開關掣 hoi1 gwaan1 zai3 and 總掣 zung2 zai3. The first example is 「入實驗室㩒緊急掣」. The ruby marks the whole line jap6 sat6 jim6 sat1 gam6 gan2 gap1 zai3. The English adds, at the end of the line, “a tongue twister”.

撳 and 㩒 are two spellings on another page. The first entry reads both gam6: to press down with a finger, or to apply pressure some other way. The collocation is 撳掣. This page’s example switches to 撳: 「入實驗室撳緊急掣」. The ruby matches the 掣 page. The English says “a popular tongue twister”. The second entry is tagged Macau. 撳, 㩒 and 揞 are all am6, glossed as the Macau reading of 撳. to-jyutping reads the line above as the gam6 string, whether it is written with 撳 or with 㩒. 緊急 has no page, and neither does 實驗室. Those syllables appear only in the ruby. They have no entries of their own.

The line 「一蚊一斤龜，七蚊一斤雞」 is often used for practice. The whole sentence has no entry. The pages that do match are these.

蚊 has two entries, both man1. The first is a flying insect that may pass on disease when it draws blood, measure 隻. The second is also written 文. It is a money unit: for currencies counted in 元 or in dollars, Cantonese often says 蚊, so that 一百蚊 means one hundred dollars. It has to sit next to a number. The character cannot be said on its own. The example says even a bottle of soft drink that large is seven dollars.

斤 has no page. to-jyutping gives gan1. 貴 is gwai3, high in price. The example says the car is expensive. The near synonym is 乸脷 and the antonym is 平. The 乸脷 page was not opened.

龜 has four entries, all gwai1. The first is the reptile, belly and back hardened into a shell, measure 隻. Collocations: 陸龜 luk6 gwai1, 海龜 hoi2 gwai1, 龜殼 gwai1 hok3. The near synonym is 烏龜. The second and third are tagged trendy slang, one for being late or hanging back, one for moving slowly. The fourth is tagged slang, a derogatory name for the police. Examples and collocations from the last three are not quoted here.

雞 has five entries, all gai1, with the variant 鷄. The first is the poultry bird, measure 隻. Collocations are 公雞 and 母雞. Later in the same entry there is another sense, glossed as the same as a whistle, collocation 吹雞 ceoi1 gai1. The next four are tagged slang. The second is also tagged with the vice label. The third is to dismiss someone from a job. The fourth is weak or useless. The fifth says it is 蚊, in the range of one to ten dollars, sometimes placed after the measure 蚊. The collocation is 十雞 sap6 gai1. A further clause on that entry says it can also mean ten thousand dollars. That clause was not copied to the end in this pass. The example on the second entry is not quoted.

郵差 jau4 caai1, 姨丈 ji4 zoeng2, 斑馬 baan1 maa5 and 班長 baan1 zoeng2 each have a page. Longer lines built from them, like the lines built on 宜家, 魚腸 or 蜘蛛, are not in the dictionary.

Sources

• LSHK Jyutping scheme
• CanCLID to-jyutping
• words.hk: 掣, 撳, 蚊, 貴, 龜, 雞, 郵差, 姨丈, 斑馬, 班長