fui1蝰
Jyutpingfui1
Yalefūi
Definition
Forest or meadow viper.
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How it's used
This term is rarely used in casual daily conversation because most people simply use the general term 蛇 to refer to all snakes. It is primarily reserved for formal, biological, or specific descriptive contexts where identifying the species is necessary. In common speech, people are more likely to describe the snake by its appearance or habitat rather than using this specific character.
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tiu4條tìuhExamples
It looks like there is a viper in the bushes here.
If you see a viper, make sure you do not go near it.
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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.
