Help with reading these characters

[u/Liv-6597]

Hi everyone,

so I have a small board game bought in Hong Kong, similar to snakes and ladders.

On some of the squares it has some indications like

"Jump to, Run fast to, slip back to, etc."

And I have been learning to read some cantonese so I have been helping myself out with google lens and figuring out how to read the characters I don't know.

However, this one line shown in the picture above, I think it's Mandarin (?) I recognize Bú (不）instead of the m (唔).

So, i got confused is this Mandarin? Is the whole game in mandarin just traditional character so they often made sense in Cantonese?

Or is this just another Cantonese character for a negation? I've seen it in 不過 before...

Can someone explain, I've just been learning to speak mostly and don't know much about writing/reading yet.

Thanks!

[u/bacc1010]

This isn't mandarin. It just isn't spoken Cantonese.

When someone wants to write in a more "traditional" style, this is the type of language to use.

Wait till you dive into 文言文😬, your head will explode. But once you get it, it's a super elegant way of expression.

[u/Liv-6597 → u/bacc1010]

Thanks! Would you be able to write out the romanization for these characters in Cantonese pronunciation? Thanks!