How to say “Barbecue pork (char siu)” in Cantonese
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caa1 siu1 · Barbecue pork (char siu)
Pork roasted with a sweet, sticky glaze until the edges char. Hung in the windows of roast meat shops and served over rice.
The colour of each syllable is its tone — Cantonese has six, and the same sound in another tone is another word.