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Definition
Bedding; items and equipment needed for sleeping.
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How it's used
Refers to a collective category of items including sheets, pillows, and blankets. While perfectly understandable in Hong Kong, it is a formal or retail term that sounds slightly more literary than everyday speech. Locals are much more likely to refer to specific items like 枕頭 or 被鋪 when talking about their own beds.
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This set of bedding is very comfortable.
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Common mistake
Avoid using this in casual conversation with friends as it sounds like you are reading a department store catalogue. Use 被鋪 instead for a more natural, colloquial way to describe bedding.
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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.
