haa4遐
Jyutpinghaa4
Yalehàh
Definition
Far or distant.
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How it's used
Literary characters like this one are rarely used in isolation within spoken Cantonese. They almost exclusively appear as part of four character idioms or formal set phrases. Using them in casual conversation will sound overly poetic or pretentious.
Examples
This place is famous far and wide, many people go there.
Do you know any places that are famous far and wide?
Related words
Common phrases
famous far and wide
Common mistake
Learners often mistake this for a common adjective, but it is a bound morpheme. You cannot use it to describe a physical distance in a sentence like 'the shop is far' by saying 嗰間舖頭好遐.
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Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
