My Cantonese Lexicon IV: Body parts

English	Cantonese	jyutping	yale
body	身體	san1 tai2	sān tái
head	頭	tau4	tàuh
hair	頭髮	tau4 faat3	tàuh faat
eyebrow	眼眉	ngaan5 mei4	ngáahn mèih
eyelashes	睫毛	zit6 mou4	jit mòuh
eye	眼	ngaan5	ngáahn
ear	耳仔	ji5 zai2	yíh jái
nose	鼻	bei6	beih
cheek	臉頰	lim5 haap3	líhm haap
mouth	口	hau2	háu
lips	嘴唇	zeoi2 seon4	jéui sèuhn
teeth	牙齒	ngaa4 ci2	ngàh chí
Tongue	脷	lei6	leih
Chin	下巴	haa6 paa4	hah pàh
Neck	頸	geng2	géng
Shoulder	膊頭	bok3 tau4	bok tàuh
Arm	手臂	sau2 bei3	sáu bei
Wrist	手腕	sau2 wun2	sáu wún
Hand	手	sau2	sáu
Finger	手指	sau2 zi2	sáu jí
Thumb	拇指	mou5 zi2	móuh jí
Fingernail	手指甲	sau2 zi2 gaap3	sáu jí gaap
Chest	胸膛	hung1 tong4	hūng tòhng
Abdomen	肚	tou5	tóuh

English	Cantonese	jyutping	yale
Thigh	大腿	daai6 teoi2	daaih téui
Knee	膝頭	sat1 tau4	sāt tàuh
Leg	腿	teoi2	téui
Ankle	腳眼	geok3 ngaan5	geuk ngáahn
Foot	腳	geok3	geuk
Toe	腳趾	geok3 zi2	geuk jí
Big toe	拇指	mou5 zi2	móuh jí
Brain	腦	nou5	nóuh
Liver	肝	gon1	gōn
Kidney	腎臟	san6 zong6	sahn johng
Stomach	胃	wai6	waih
Lung	肺	fai3	fai
Heart	心	sam1	sām
Blood	血	hyut3	hyut
Skin	皮膚	pei4 fu1	pèih fū
Bone	骨	gwat1	gwāt
Muscle	肌肉	gei1 juk6	gēi yuhk
Organs	內臟	noi6 zong6	noih johng

*Some words experience a tone change. CantoDict (see below) attributes this to whether the character is being read in a literary manner or a colloquial manner, but some Hong Kong friends have told me that the tone depends on what surrounds the word.

E.g. jyu4 (yùh) = literary, jyu2 (yú)= colloquial

(Please see CantoDict's explanation: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/essays/tones.htm#cantodict_tones )

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