kam4 cuk1禽畜
Jyutpingkam4 cuk1
Yalekàhm chūk
Definition
Livestock and poultry; domesticated animals and fowl reared for human use.
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How it's used
This term is a formal collective noun that encompasses both poultry and livestock. It is rarely used in casual daily conversation unless discussing agriculture, food safety, or veterinary topics. In most everyday contexts, people simply refer to specific animals like 雞 or 豬 directly.
Examples
This farm raises a lot of livestock and poultry.
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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.
