haa6 gaau3 zaam6廈滘站厦滘站
Jyutpinghaa6 gaau3 zaam6
Yalehah gaau jaahm
Definition
Xiajiao station, a metro station in Guangzhou, China.
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How it's used
Names of mainland Chinese metro stations are typically pronounced using Cantonese readings of the characters rather than Mandarin pinyin. Locals will refer to this station by the Cantonese pronunciation of 廈 and 滘, which differs significantly from the Mandarin sound. It functions as a proper noun and is almost always preceded by the particle 喺 when describing location.
Examples
We are getting off at Xiajiao station.
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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.



