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Definition
A rice seedling transplanter.
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How it's used
This term is a technical compound used primarily in agricultural contexts. While it is understood by most speakers, it is rarely encountered in daily urban life in Hong Kong. It follows the standard structure of combining the action, the object, and the machine suffix.
Measure word
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The farmer is using a rice transplanter to plant seedlings.
Related words
Common phrases
operate a rice transplanter
new model rice transplanter
Grammar color guide
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Particle
Connector
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.
