jau4郵邮
Jyutpingjau4
Yaleyàuh
Definition
To mail or post; relating to mail or postal services.
neutralcommunication
How it's used
Functions primarily as a bound morpheme in compound words related to postal services. It rarely appears as a standalone verb in modern speech, where 寄 is the preferred choice for the action of mailing something. You will mostly encounter it in formal or administrative nouns like 郵票 or 郵差.
Examples
He went to the post office to mail a letter today.
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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.
