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Yalegāu
Definition
A bamboo frame for drying clothes, or a bamboo basket.
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How it's used
This term is increasingly rare in modern urban Hong Kong, where metal drying racks or plastic laundry baskets have largely replaced traditional bamboo versions. It specifically refers to the structure or container made of bamboo, carrying a nostalgic or traditional connotation. You will mostly hear it from older generations or in descriptions of traditional village life.
Measure word
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Mom is drying clothes outside, the bamboo frame is very old.
Related words
Common phrases
bamboo clothes drying frame
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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.
