cau4籌筹
Jyutpingcau4
Yalechàuh
Definition
A ticket, token, or quota tag used to establish one's priority in a queue or service.
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How it's used
Primarily associated with medical clinics, government offices, or popular restaurants where a manual queuing system is in place. It implies a physical or digital token that grants the holder a specific place in a sequence. While it can refer to gambling chips in a formal sense, its most common daily usage is strictly for managing waiting lines.
Measure word
zoeng1張jēungExamples
There are still many people ahead waiting to get a ticket.
Related words
Common mistake
Do not confuse this with 飛, which is a general term for a ticket like a movie or bus ticket. 籌 is specifically for queuing for a service, whereas 飛 is for entry or passage.
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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.
