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埋手打三更 (maai4 sau2 daa2 saam1 gaang1) — [idiom] to describe a person did it wrong from the beginning in Cantonese

maaiˎ₄埋sauˊ²手daaˊ²打saamˉ¹三gaangˉ¹更
Mandarin Pinyin: mai2 shou3 da3 san1 geng1

Meaning of 埋手打三更

noun[idiom] to describe a person did it wrong from the beginning

Characters in 埋手打三更

埋maai4
move closer/nearer to; close in/up
手sau2
handy, portable; handwritten
打daa2
dozen
三saam1
three; third; thrice
更gang1
a watch period (one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided starting at 7pm)

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