jing4 can1迎親迎亲
Jyutpingjing4 can1
Yaleyìhng chān
Definition
To escort the bride from her home to the groom's home in a traditional Chinese wedding.
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How it's used
Modern weddings often focus on the games played during this process rather than the formal escorting ritual itself. It is common to refer to the entire morning event of picking up the bride as 玩迎親, highlighting the playful and often chaotic nature of the challenges set by the bridesmaids.
Examples
The groom has to take the team to pick up the bride tomorrow morning.
Did you guys play pranks on the groom when you went to pick up the bride?
Related words
Common phrases
to play wedding games during the bride-fetching ritual
the groom's entourage
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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.
