baat3 gwaa3 zau1 hon2八卦週刊八卦周刊
Jyutpingbaat3 gwaa3 zau1 hon2
Yalebaat gwa jāu hón
Definition
Gossip weekly; a weekly tabloid-type magazine featuring celebrity news, gossip, and privacy-revealing stories.
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How it's used
Refers specifically to publications that thrive on sensationalism, paparazzi photos, and celebrity scandals. While the term is standard, it carries a slightly dismissive tone as it implies the content is trivial or intrusive. It is often shortened to just 八卦雜誌 in casual conversation.
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bun2本búnExamples
He reads gossip magazines all the time and loves digging into other people's privacy.
Do you believe the things written in those gossip magazines?
Related words
Common phrases
to read gossip magazines
gossip magazine cover
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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.
