tung4 fong2同房
Jyutpingtung4 fong2
Yaletùhng fóng
Definition
Roommate; a person who shares a room but is not related by blood or marriage.
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How it's used
Refers specifically to someone sharing a bedroom, often in a university dormitory or a shared apartment setting. It does not carry the connotation of a romantic partner or spouse, unlike the term 同居 which implies living together as a couple. Use it to describe a peer or housemate you share sleeping quarters with.
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go3個goExamples
My roommate really likes to eat late-night snacks in the middle of the night.
Related words
Common mistake
Avoid using this to describe someone you share a flat or apartment with if you have separate bedrooms, as that is better described as 室友 or 夾租嘅人.
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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.
