neoi5 gaai3女界
Jyutpingneoi5 gaai3
Yalenéuih gaai
Definition
Women's toilet, typically used in signage outside female facilities.
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How it's used
This term is almost exclusively found on signage or building floor plans to designate female facilities. While it is understood in speech, most people simply use 女廁 in daily conversation to refer to the room itself. Using it in casual speech can sound slightly formal or clinical, as if you are reading a sign aloud.
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Excuse me, where is the women's restroom?
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Common phrases
women's restroom entrance
Common mistake
Do not confuse this with the term 女界 used in literary contexts to refer to the female gender or women as a social group. In the context of public facilities, it is strictly a label for a room.
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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.
