How to say “Pineapple bun” in Cantonese
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bo1 lo4 baau1 · Pineapple bun
A sweet bun with a crackly sugar-crust top that looks like a pineapple. There is no pineapple in it.
The colour of each syllable is its tone — Cantonese has six, and the same sound in another tone is another word.