dei6 caan2地產地产
Jyutpingdei6 caan2
Yaledeih cháan
Definition
Real estate; the industry of buying, selling, developing, or trading land and property.
colloquialworkmoney
How it's used
Refers specifically to the business or industry of property development and brokerage rather than the physical land itself. When talking about the physical shop where agents work, locals often just say 地產舖. It is common to drop the word agent and simply refer to the professional as a 地產.
Examples
He works at a real estate company.
Are you planning to find a real estate agent to help sell the apartment?
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Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
