hung1 jung2洶湧汹涌
Jyutpinghung1 jung2
Yalehūng yúng
Definition
Surging, turbulent, or tempestuous; usually describing massive, rushing waves.
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How it's used
Used primarily to describe the powerful, chaotic movement of water, such as waves or rapids. While it can metaphorically describe intense crowd movements or overwhelming emotions, it remains a formal or literary term that is rarely used in casual, everyday conversation. It carries a sense of danger and lack of control.
Examples
The waves are very turbulent today, don't go out to sea.
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Common mistake
Learners often mistakenly use this to describe general busyness or crowdedness, but it specifically requires a sense of fluid, surging motion. It is not interchangeable with general adjectives for 'busy' or 'loud'.
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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.
