hei2 kek6喜劇喜剧
Jyutpinghei2 kek6
Yalehéi kehk
Definition
Comedy; a humorous or lighthearted film, play, or drama.
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How it's used
Refers specifically to the genre of film or stage performance intended to amuse. While the term is standard, native speakers often use the English loanword 喜劇片 or simply describe a movie as 搞笑 to convey the same feeling in casual conversation.
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tou3套touExamples
Do you like watching comedies?
This comedy is seriously hilarious.
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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.
