hei3 zin3 syun4氣墊船气垫船
Jyutpinghei3 zin3 syun4
Yalehei jin syùhn
Definition
Hovercraft; a vessel that travels on a cushion of air.
neutraltransport
How it's used
Modern ferry services in Hong Kong have largely transitioned to high speed catamarans, making the term less common in daily travel than it was in the past. It remains the standard technical term for the vehicle, though locals often just say 船 when referring to the ferry service in general.
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Noun
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Pronoun
Classifier
Particle
Connector
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.



