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Definition
Phenol
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How it's used
Technical terms like 酚 are almost exclusively used in scientific, medical, or industrial contexts in Hong Kong. Unlike everyday vocabulary, these characters are adopted from chemical nomenclature and are rarely encountered in casual conversation unless discussing specific health hazards or laboratory safety.
Examples
This type of chemical contains phenol.
Is there any phenol in the laboratory?
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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.
