hung3 zai3 taap3控制塔
Jyutpinghung3 zai3 taap3
Yalehung jai taap
Definition
Control tower; an airport or seaport traffic control tower.
neutraltransportplaces
How it's used
Refers specifically to the physical building at an airport where air traffic controllers work. It is used in the same way as its English counterpart, often appearing in news reports or discussions about flight delays.
Measure word
go3個goExamples
The plane needs to wait for instructions from the control tower now.
Are the people inside the control tower very busy?
Related words
Common phrases
control tower instructions
control tower personnel
Grammar color guide
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Particle
Connector
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.
