嘢

嘢	U+5622, 嘢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5622

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

嘢 (radical 30, 口+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口田土弓 (RWGN), composition ⿰口野)

simp. and trad.		嘢
alt. forms		野

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 口 + phonetic 野.

Possibly from 也 (MC jia^X, “affirmation particle”).

嘢

(Cantonese)

thing; matter (Classifier: 樣／样)
好嘢！ [Cantonese] ― Hou² je⁵! [Jyutping] ― Good stuff! Hooray!
stuff; goods; article (Classifier: 樣／样)
(derogatory) guy; fellow; devil (Classifier: 個／个; 條／条)
Classifier for occurrences of events.
叫咗佢唔好再捽眼，但係佢係都要捽多幾嘢㗎喎。 [Cantonese, trad.]
叫咗佢唔好再捽眼，但系佢系都要捽多几嘢㗎㖞。 [Cantonese, simp.]
Giu³ zo² keoi⁵ m⁴ hou² zoi³ zeot¹ ngaan⁵, daan⁶ hai⁶ keoi⁵ hai⁶ dou¹ jiu³ cyut³ do¹ gei² je⁵ gaa³ wo³. [Jyutping]
I told him to stop rubbing his eyes, but he still goes on rubbing it a few more times.

Dialectal synonyms of 東西 (“thing, object”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		物
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		東西
Mandarin	Beijing	東西
	Jinan	東西
	Xi'an	東西
	Wuhan	東西、家伙
	Chengdu	東西
	Yangzhou	東子、東西
	Hefei	東西
Cantonese	Guangzhou	嘢
	Hong Kong	嘢
	Taishan	嘢
	Yangjiang	嘢
Gan	Nanchang	東西
Hakka	Meixian	東西
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	東西
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	東西
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	東西
	Dongshi (Dabu)	東西
	Zhuolan (Raoping)	東西
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	物件
Jin	Taiyuan	東西
Min Bei	Jian'ou	物事
Min Dong	Fuzhou	乇
Min Nan	Xiamen	物件、物
	Quanzhou	物件
	Zhangzhou	物件
	Taipei	物件
	Kaohsiung	物仔、物件
	Tainan	物仔、物件
	Taichung	物件
	Hsinchu	物件
	Lukang	物、物件
	Sanxia	物件
	Yilan	物仔、物件
	Kinmen	物、物件
	Magong	物、物件
	Philippines (Manila)	物件
	Chaozhou	物件、物
Wu	Shanghai	物事
	Suzhou	物事
	Wenzhou	物事、物色、名堂
Xiang	Changsha	東西、家伙
Xiang	Shuangfeng	東西、家伙

Derived terms from 嘢

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