Food is an exclusive verb in Cantonese, and similar words include career, knowledge, falling and meaning, which mean standing, looking, falling and calling in Chinese respectively.
Cantonese vocabulary is divided into Chinese words, Cantonese words and loanwords. Chinese words: most commonly used, accounting for most of the vocabulary, such as "time"; Cantonese words: Cantonese-specific words, such as "virtuous";
Loanwords: refers to words composed of foreign languages, and Cantonese absorbs more loanwords. For example, "store" in Cantonese everyday language means "store" in English.
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Cantonese is widely popular in central and western Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macau, southeastern Guangxi and overseas Chinese communities such as Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City, Sydney, Melbourne, Christmas Island, new york, San Francisco, Vancouver and Toronto.
There are many people who use Cantonese in the world, with a population of about 67 million in Guangdong, plus about 25 million in Guangxi, 7 million in Hong Kong, 550,000 in Macau, 5 million in Thailand, 5 million in Singapore and Malaysia, 2 million in the United States and Canada, and nearly 65.438+0.2 billion in the world.