jing1 mau5英畝英亩
Jyutpingjing1 mau5
Yaleyīng máuh
Definition
Acre; a unit of land area commonly used in the UK and the US.
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How it's used
英畝 is a loan translation used primarily in formal, academic, or legal contexts involving land measurement. In everyday Hong Kong life, people rarely use this unit because local land area is almost exclusively measured in square feet or square metres. You will mostly encounter it when reading international news or translated literature.
Examples
This piece of land is about fifty acres.
Do you know how many acres this farm has?
Related words
Common phrases
several hundred acres
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Grammar guides
- QuestionsFrom yes or no questions to asking who, what, where, and when. The patterns you need to ask questions naturally in Cantonese.
- ClassifiersCantonese puts a classifier between a number and a noun, and a bare classifier on its own can mean the. Learn the common ones and how to use them.
- ComparisonsHow to say bigger than, the most, the same as, and not as good as. Cantonese uses 過 where Mandarin uses 比, and that catches a lot of learners out.
