haak3 fong2客房
Jyutpinghaak3 fong2
Yalehaak fóng
Definition
Guest room; a room for guests, typically found in hotels or larger houses.
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How it's used
Primarily used in the context of hotels or large private residences. While it specifically refers to a room for guests, it is rarely used for a spare room in a typical small Hong Kong apartment, where people might just say 房 or 雜物房 instead.
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gaan1間gānExamples
The hotel guest room is very big.
Does your house have an extra guest room for me to stay in?
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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.
