教會歌

Chinese

		church	song
trad. (教會歌)		教會	歌
simp. (教会歌)		教会	歌
Literally: “Christian church song”.

Etymology

Due to the fact that many Christian hymns, especially those whose lyrics were written with Mandarin in mind, have poor tone-melody correspondence when sung in Cantonese.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaau³ wui^6-2 go¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaau³ wui^6-2 go¹
    • Yale: gaau wúi gō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaau³ wui^6-2 go¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gao³ wui^6-2 go¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaːu̯³³ wuːi̯²²⁻³⁵ kɔː⁵⁵/

Noun

教會歌

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) song with lyrics that have poor tone-melody correspondence

Further reading

• 香港網絡大典[EVCHK] 邊間教會[Which church do you belong to?]