hei1醯
Jyutpinghei1
Yalehēi
Definition
Acyl, or vinegar and pickles.
- technicalacyl
- literaryvinegar; pickles
colloquialfood
How it's used
Used primarily in the context of food preservation, this character refers to the process of pickling or the resulting sour, fermented taste. While it appears in chemical terminology for acyl groups, its everyday usage is almost exclusively restricted to culinary descriptions of sour, vinegary, or fermented foods.
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Common mistake
Learners often confuse this with 醋, which specifically refers to vinegar as a liquid condiment. Use 醯 when describing the state of being pickled or the sour flavor profile of preserved items, rather than the liquid itself.
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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.
