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Definition
Blind; having impaired or lost vision due to injury or illness affecting the eyes, nerves, or brain.
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How it's used
While 瞎 is understood in Cantonese, it is significantly less common than 盲. It often carries a more clinical or descriptive tone regarding the physical condition of the eyes. In everyday aggressive or casual speech, 盲 is the default choice for calling someone blind.
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Common mistake
Avoid using 瞎 to describe someone who is simply not paying attention, as it can sound overly harsh or clinical compared to the more idiomatic 盲. Using it in a casual argument might sound like you are using a Mandarin-influenced term rather than natural Cantonese.
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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.
