gwai1 fong4閨房闺房
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Yalegwāi fòhng
Definition
A lady's bedroom or boudoir; also used as a euphemism for sex.
- an unmarried woman's bedroom or boudoir
- literarymatters of the bedroom; sex
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How it's used
Historically referring to the private quarters of unmarried women, this term carries a strong literary or archaic flavor. In modern daily life, it is rarely used to describe a standard bedroom and instead often appears in period dramas or when someone wants to sound overly dramatic or poetic. Using it for a regular room can sound quite humorous or pretentious.
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She is always hiding in her bedroom reading books.
Why did you just walk into someone's bedroom out of nowhere?
Related words
Common phrases
the pleasures of the bedroom
locked away in the bedroom
Common mistake
Avoid using this to describe a master bedroom or a shared bedroom, as it specifically implies a space reserved for a woman, often with connotations of seclusion or privacy.
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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.
