jyun1 hei3冤氣冤气
Jyutpingjyun1 hei3
Yaleyūn hei
Definition
Unbearable, tiresome, or overwhelming due to excessive attention or affection.
colloquialemotionpeople
How it's used
Describes a specific type of annoyance where someone is being overly affectionate, clingy, or intrusive to the point of making others feel awkward or stifled. It is frequently used to tease couples who display excessive public affection or to describe a person whose constant, unwanted attention feels like a heavy burden. The term carries a sense of being trapped by someone else's emotional intensity.
Examples
You two are always stuck together, it is really unbearable to watch.
He is being so suffocatingly attentive to me that I feel quite uncomfortable.
Related words
Common phrases
very suffocating or unbearable
Common mistake
Do not confuse this with 冤枉, which means to treat someone unjustly or to frame them. 冤氣 is strictly about an unbearable, stifling atmosphere created by someone's behavior.
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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.
