waang4 gaai1橫街横街
Jyutpingwaang4 gaai1
Yalewàahng gāai
Definition
A side street, alleyway, or narrow street branching off a main road.
colloquialplaces
How it's used
Often used in the context of urban navigation or describing older, less busy parts of a neighborhood. It carries a sense of being away from the main thoroughfares, which are usually referred to as 大路. It is very common to hear it paired with 窄巷 to describe a maze of small, interconnected alleys.
Measure word
tiu4條tìuhExamples
He is buying things at that shop in the side street.
This side street is so narrow, how can a car get in?
Related words
Common phrases
narrow alleys and side streets
Grammar color guide
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Classifier
Particle
Connector
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.
