cung1 pui3充沛
Jyutpingcung1 pui3
Yalechūng pui
Definition
Plentiful, abundant, full of, or vigorous.
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How it's used
Focuses on the intensity or volume of something abstract like energy, spirit, or natural resources. It carries a formal or literary tone, so it is rarely used in casual conversation to describe physical objects like food or money. When describing people, it is almost exclusively paired with 精力 to highlight someone's vitality.
Examples
He is full of energy every day, as if he doesn't need to sleep.
The rainfall here is abundant, so the flowers bloom beautifully.
Related words
Common mistake
Avoid using this to describe countable physical objects or money, as it sounds unnatural. For those contexts, use 充足 or 豐富 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.
