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Definition
Opium; dried latex of the opium poppy used medically as an anesthetic but commonly consumed as an illicit drug.
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How it's used
Historically, this term carries heavy connotations of the colonial era and the Opium Wars. In modern Cantonese, it is almost exclusively used in historical, medical, or metaphorical contexts rather than daily conversation. When referring to the drug itself, people today are far more likely to use general terms for illicit substances.
Examples
People in the past ruined their health by smoking opium.
Do you know that opium is actually extracted from poppies?
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Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
