kong3 ji5抗議抗议
Jyutpingkong3 ji5
Yalekong yíh
Definition
To protest or express a dissenting opinion, such as through demonstrations, speeches, or strikes.
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How it's used
While often used for large scale public demonstrations, this term also applies to individual acts of defiance or formal objections in professional settings. It carries a sense of active, vocal opposition rather than just passive disagreement. In casual conversation, people might use more specific terms like 示威 to describe street protests, reserving this for the act of expressing a formal grievance.
Examples
They are protesting on the street.
How do you all want to protest this matter?
Related words
Common phrases
hunger strike in protest
to initiate a protest
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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.
