bat1筆笔
Jyutpingbat1
Yalebāt
Definition
A sum, amount, or lump sum of money.
colloquialmoney
How it's used
This classifier is reserved specifically for financial transactions or accumulated amounts. It carries a sense of a significant or distinct block of capital rather than loose change. You will often hear it paired with verbs like 賺 or 儲 to emphasize the scale of the money involved.
Examples
How do you plan to spend that sum of money?
Related words
Common mistake
Do not use this for small, everyday amounts of cash like coins or pocket money. For casual references to money, use 嚿 instead.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
