Cantonese · Day 17 · Tone Changes and Colloquial Inflections
糖
tong4Jyutping
sugar / candy
noun
The base form of the noun using its original low-falling tone (tone 4). While it can broadly refer to sugar as an ingredient, in casual speech it is frequently modified via tone change when referring to individual candies.
In a sentence
醫生話我血糖高，叫我唔好食咁多糖。
ji1 sang1 waa6 ngo5 hyut3 tong4 gou1, giu3 ngo5 m4 hou2 sik6 gam2 do1 tong4.
The doctor said my blood sugar is high and told me not to eat so much sugar.