hang1吭
Jyutpinghang1
Yalehāng
Definition
To utter a sound or make a noise.
colloquialcommunication
How it's used
Primarily used in the negative form to describe someone remaining silent or refusing to speak up. It carries a sense of stubbornness or deliberate avoidance of communication when one is expected to respond.
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Common phrases
to make a sound or speak up
Common mistake
Do not use this word in formal writing as it is strictly a spoken term. It is almost exclusively paired with 聲 to form the compound 吭聲.
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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.
