越嚟越

Chinese

		to exceed; to climb over; to surpass to exceed; to climb over; to surpass; the more ... the more	(Cantonese) to come	to exceed; to climb over; to surpass to exceed; to climb over; to surpass; the more ... the more
trad. (越嚟越)		越	嚟	越
simp. #(越嚟越)		越	嚟	越

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyut⁶ lai⁴ jyut⁶ / jyut⁶ lei⁴ jyut⁶

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyut⁶ lai⁴ jyut⁶ / jyut⁶ lei⁴ jyut⁶
    • Yale: yuht làih yuht / yuht lèih yuht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyt⁹ lai⁴ jyt⁹ / jyt⁹ lei⁴ jyt⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yud⁶ lei⁴ yud⁶ / yud⁶ léi⁴ yud⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːt̚² lɐi̯²¹ jyːt̚²/, /jyːt̚² lei̯²¹ jyːt̚²/

Adverb

越嚟越

1. (Cantonese) more and more; increasingly

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 越來越 (“more and more; increasingly”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		愈來愈, 越來越
Mandarin	Taiwan	越來越
	Yantai (Muping)	越住越
	Xi'an	越來越
	Singapore	越來越
Cantonese	Guangzhou	越嚟越
	Hong Kong	越嚟越
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	越來越
	Singapore (Guangfu)	越嚟越
Gan	Pingxiang	越來越
Hakka	Meixian	越來越
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	緊來緊
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	緊來緊
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	緊來緊
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	緊來緊
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	緊來緊
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	越來越
Eastern Min	Singapore (Fuqing)	罔來罔
Southern Min	Xiamen	愈來愈
	Jinjiang	愈來愈
	Zhao'an	愈來愈
	Tainan	愈來愈, 那來那
	Singapore (Hokkien)	愈來愈
	Manila (Hokkien)	愈來愈
	Chaozhou	愈來愈
	Shantou	越來越, 愈來愈
	Singapore (Teochew)	愈來愈
	Wenchang	那來那
	Singapore (Hainanese)	那來那
Wu	Shanghai	越來越
Xiang	Changsha	更發更

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