Use this tool to add tone marks to pinyin or to convert tone number (e.g. hao3) to tone marks.
Although you can use the red buttons to add tone marks, we highly recommend you use the number method (e.g. hao3) for speed and placement of the accent above the correct vowel. [Hint: Type "v" for "ü"]
Note: You do not need to use this tool to enter pinyin in this dictionary.
| Phonetics: | ||
| Tone colors (āáǎàa): |
| Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|
| kyut3 haam6, ham6 | kyut3 haam6, ham6 | defect / flaw / physical defect |
| Traditional Chinese | Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| kyut3 | kyut3 | deficiency / lack / scarce / vacant post / to run short of | ||
| haam6, ham6 | haam6, ham6 | pitfall / trap / to get stuck / to sink / to cave in / to frame (false charge) / to capture (a city in battle) / to fall (to the enemy) / defect |
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Human perception is highly imperfect and by definition subjective.
Thus, fault plays a role in the Restatement assessment.
For all its faults, the film instantly became a classic.
This drug has one important limitation. Its effects only last six hours.
Some hearing-impaired children may work harder to overcome their handicap.
Amnesty says there are fundamental flaws in their military justice system.
A manufacturer negligently made and marketed a car with defective brakes.
BMW is recalling 8,000 cars because of a design fault.
There was some fatal flaw in his makeup, and as time went on he lapsed into long silences or became off-hand.
In electroplated metals, these defects are primarily dislocations, twins, and deposited foreign atoms or molecular groups.
