jau4 zing3郵政邮政
Jyutpingjau4 zing3
Yaleyàuh jing
Definition
Postal service; the administration of mail, which in some countries also includes savings and insurance services.
neutralcommunication
How it's used
Refers specifically to the institutional or administrative side of mail delivery. While it appears in formal names like 香港郵政, people usually refer to the physical building as 郵局 rather than using the full term 郵政 in daily speech.
Examples
You need to take this letter to the post office to mail it.
Do you know where there is postal service?
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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.
