bo1 fuk1波幅
Jyutpingbo1 fuk1
Yalebō fūk
Definition
The range of fluctuation, such as the scale of a rise or fall.
neutralmoney
How it's used
Primarily used in financial and technical contexts to describe the variance in prices or rates over a specific period. It functions as a formal noun that sounds professional when discussing market trends or statistical data. You will rarely hear it used to describe physical movement or emotional shifts, as those usually require different vocabulary.
Examples
The stock market fluctuation range is very large today.
Do you think the fluctuation range of this stock is stable?
Related words
Common mistake
Learners often mistakenly use it to describe the physical range of an object or a person's reach, but it is strictly reserved for abstract numerical or statistical fluctuations.
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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.
