tong4 liu4糖寮
Jyutpingtong4 liu4
Yaletòhng lìuh
Definition
Sugarcane mill; a workshop for pressing sugarcane and boiling sugar.
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How it's used
Refers specifically to traditional, small scale workshops where sugarcane is crushed and boiled into sugar. It is rarely used in modern urban life and is mostly encountered when discussing rural history or heritage sites in the New Territories. The term evokes a sense of nostalgia for pre-industrial agricultural practices.
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gaan1間gānExamples
There used to be a sugarcane mill here.
Do you know where there is still a sugarcane mill?
Common phrases
old sugarcane mill
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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.
