ngo6 dai2 hang4 dung6臥底行動卧底行动
Jyutpingngo6 dai2 hang4 dung6
Yalengoh dái hàhng duhng
Definition
An undercover operation or sting operation.
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How it's used
Refers specifically to police or investigative work involving secret surveillance or infiltration. While often used in news reports, it is also a staple of Hong Kong action cinema and crime dramas, making it a very familiar term to local speakers.
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The police's undercover operation this time was very successful.
Do you know what kind of undercover operation they are running?
Related words
Common phrases
to launch an undercover operation
to deploy an undercover operation
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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.
