fai3 hei3廢氣废气
Jyutpingfai3 hei3
Yalefai hei
Definition
Exhaust gas or emissions; waste gas produced by industrial processes or fuel combustion.
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How it's used
Focuses specifically on the harmful emissions from engines or industrial processes rather than general air pollution. While it can refer to industrial output, it is most frequently used in daily life to complain about the fumes emitted by buses or trucks in congested urban areas.
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zan6陣janhExamples
The exhaust fumes by the roadside smell terrible.
Have you smelled that exhaust gas yet?
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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.
