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十隻手指有長短 (sap6 zek3 sau2 zi2 jau5 coeng4 dyun2) — you sometimes cannot ask for absolute fairness in Cantonese

sapˍ₆十zek˗₃隻sauˊ²手ziˊ²指jauˏ₅有coengˎ₄長dyunˊ²短
简 十只手指有长短
Mandarin Pinyin: shi2 zhi3 shou3 zhi3 you3 chang2 duan3

Meaning of 十隻手指有長短

nounyou sometimes cannot ask for absolute fairness
nouneverything/ everyone is different in the world

Characters in 十隻手指有長短

十sap6
KangXi radical 24
隻zek3
single; alone; one only
手sau2
handy, portable; handwritten
指zi2
point to/at; refer to
有jau5
there is; exist; be present
長coeng4
(of distance and time) long | [antonym] 短
短dyun2
short; brief

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