hung1 zung1 fuk6 mou6 jyun4空中服務員空中服务员
Jyutpinghung1 zung1 fuk6 mou6 jyun4
Yalehūng jūng fuhk mouh yùhn
Definition
Flight attendant; cabin crew member.
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How it's used
People in Hong Kong almost exclusively use the colloquial term 空姐 for female flight attendants or 空少 for male ones in daily conversation. The full term 空中服務員 is reserved for formal contexts like job advertisements, official airline announcements, or when speaking to someone you do not know well. Using the full term in a casual setting can sound overly stiff or distant.
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She has been a flight attendant for many years.
Do you want to be a flight attendant?
Related words
Common phrases
to work as a flight attendant
Common mistake
Learners often use the full term 空中服務員 in casual conversation where it sounds unnatural, similar to calling a waiter 餐飲服務員 instead of 侍應.
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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.
