joek6 coi4 pou2藥材鋪药材铺
Jyutpingjoek6 coi4 pou2
Yaleyeuhk chòih póu
Definition
A Chinese herbal medicine shop.
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How it's used
Refers specifically to traditional Chinese medicine stores that sell dried herbs, roots, and sometimes dried seafood. These shops often have a distinct smell of herbs and rows of wooden drawers behind the counter. People visit them not just for medicine, but also for ingredients to make nourishing soups for health maintenance.
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The ingredients at this herbal shop are very high quality.
How much did you spend on angelica root at the herbal shop?
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Common mistake
Do not confuse this with a standard pharmacy or drugstore, which is called 藥房. A 藥房 typically sells Western medicine, toiletries, and baby products, whereas a 藥材鋪 focuses exclusively on traditional Chinese ingredients.
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Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
