wong4 sik1 gaa3 bou6黃色架步黄色架步
Jyutpingwong4 sik1 gaa3 bou6
Yalewòhng sīk ga bouh
Definition
A vice establishment, brothel, or place associated with prostitution.
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How it's used
This term is a euphemism used to describe places involved in sex work or illicit massage parlors. It carries a slightly journalistic or gossipy tone, often appearing in news reports about police crackdowns or when warning someone about a seedy neighborhood. It is not a term used to address the workers themselves, but rather to label the business entity.
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There are many vice establishments on that street, better not walk past there at night.
Did the police go raid that vice establishment again?
Related words
Common phrases
raid a vice establishment
Common mistake
Do not confuse this with the word 架步 on its own, which can sometimes refer to a hideout or a base of operations for criminals, not necessarily related to sex work.
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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.
