sau1 ngan2 jyun4收銀員收银员
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Definition
Cashier; a staff member responsible for calculating prices, receiving payments, and giving change.
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How it's used
While this term is standard for the professional role, locals often simply refer to the person at the counter as 收銀. Using the full title 收銀員 is more common when describing someone's job or in a formal context, but in casual conversation, people might just say 嗰個收銀.
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The cashier is very slow, I've been queuing for a long time.
When you worked as a cashier, did you ever take the wrong amount of money?
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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.
