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Cantonese (jyutping) pronunciation of 援 (wun4 or jyun4 or both)?
援
Jyutping wun4 is standard reading; jyun4 is variant.
Almost everyone pronounces 援 as /wun4/ colloquially
In day-to-day life, 援 is pronounced as /jyun4/ mostly when it is literary, for example, ...
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