{"id":495,"date":"2010-08-20T11:47:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T19:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/"},"modified":"2013-02-27T13:03:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T21:03:50","slug":"cantonese","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/cantonese\/","title":{"rendered":"Cantonese"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Cantonese: Defined<\/h2>\n<p>We use Cantonese here to refer to one of the most popular Chinese dialects used in the Guangdong Province and around (Hong Kong, Macau, and Guangxi Province). In Chinese, we call it <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E7%B2%B5%E8%AA%9E%EF%BC%8C\">\u7cb5\u8a9e\uff0c<\/a> <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E5%BB%A3%E5%BA%9C%E8%A9%B1%EF%BC%8C\">\u5ee3\u5e9c\u8a71\uff0c<\/a> <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E5%BB%A3%E5%B7%9E%E8%A9%B1%EF%BC%8C\">\u5ee3\u5dde\u8a71\uff0c<\/a> <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E5%BB%A3%E6%9D%B1%E8%A9%B1%E3%80%82\">\u5ee3\u6771\u8a71\u3002<\/a> Guangzhou used to be called Canton so Cantonese was meant to refer to the language spoken in that area or the people who live in Canton.<\/p>\n<p>It must not be taken as <b>Canto<\/b>, which is a principal form of division in a long poem, especially the epic. 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