捩橫折曲

Chinese

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unruly; horizontal; across; (horizontal character stroke)

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tenth (in price); to break; to fold; to turn; broken (as of rope, stick)

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tune; song; bent; crooked; wrong

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Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): lai^6-2 waang⁴ zit³ kuk¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: lai^6-2 waang⁴ zit³ kuk¹
  - Yale: lái wàahng jit kūk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lai^6-2 waang⁴ dzit⁸ kuk⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: lei² wang⁴ jid³ kug¹
  - IPA ^(key): /lɐi̯²²⁻³⁵ wɑːŋ²¹ t͡siːt̚³ kʰʊk̚⁵/

Idiom

捩橫折曲

(Cantonese) to bend the truth; to argue with twisted reasoning
- 其中，梁頌恆今早在電台節目上又再大放厥詞，捩橫折曲稱建制派以流會方式阻礙他們宣誓「好危險」 [Cantonese, trad.]
  其中，梁颂恒今早在电台节目上又再大放厥词，捩横折曲称建制派以流会方式阻碍他们宣誓“好危险” [Cantonese, simp.]
  From: 2016, 健良, 繼續巧言令色「青年新政」沒資格從政
  kei⁴ zung¹, loeng⁴ zung⁶ hang⁴ gam¹ zou² zoi⁶ din⁶ toi⁴ zit³ muk⁶ soeng⁶ jau⁶ zoi³ daai⁶ fong³ kyut³ ci⁴, lai^6-2 waang⁴ zit³ kuk¹ cing¹ gin³ zai³ paai³ ji⁵ lau⁴ wui^6-2 fong¹ sik¹ zo² ngoi⁶ taa¹ mun⁴ syun¹ sai⁶ “hou² ngai⁴ him²” [Jyutping]
  In particular, Baggio Leung talked a lot of nonsense again on the radio show this morning, claiming with twisted reasoning that it is “very dangerous” for the pro-establishment camp to prevent them from being sworn in by quorum-busting

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