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Definition
Clothing, costume, or apparel.
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How it's used
Refers to clothing in a more formal or collective sense compared to the everyday word 衫. It is frequently used in professional contexts, such as describing a dress code or a specific category of apparel like sports or formal wear. You will often see it on signs for retail departments or in discussions about fashion design.
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The clothes in this shop are very pretty.
Have you bought new clothes for the wedding banquet yet?
Related words
Common mistake
Avoid using this word when talking about casual, everyday items you are wearing right now, as it sounds overly formal or stiff. Use 衫 or 衫褲 instead for daily conversation.
Grammar color guide
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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.
