gap1 cou3急躁
Jyutpinggap1 cou3
Yalegāp chou
Definition
Impatient, irritable, and hot-headed.
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How it's used
Describes a personality trait where someone lacks patience and wants immediate results. It is often used to describe someone who is prone to frustration when things do not go exactly as planned. While it can describe a temporary state of mind, it is more frequently used to characterize a person's general temperament.
Examples
Don't be so impatient when you work, take it slow.
He has a hot-headed personality and gets angry very easily.
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Common mistake
Learners often confuse this with 忟憎, which is more about the feeling of being annoyed or irritated in a specific moment, whereas 急躁 focuses on the underlying impatience and haste.
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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.
