sik6 waan4 cyu5食環署食环署
Jyutpingsik6 waan4 cyu5
Yalesihk wàahn chyúh
Definition
Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD), the Hong Kong government department responsible for food safety and environmental hygiene.
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How it's used
People use this abbreviation almost exclusively in daily life, as the full name is too formal for casual conversation. It is frequently mentioned when discussing street hawkers, wet markets, or public hygiene complaints. Using the full name sounds like reading from a government document or a news report.
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The FEHD sent people to clean the streets today.
Do you know what time the FEHD closes?
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Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
