zau1 daa2周打
Jyutpingzau1 daa2
Yalejāu dá
Definition
Chowder; a thick soup made with seafood and milk or cream.
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How it's used
This term is a direct phonetic loan from English and is almost exclusively used in the context of Western-style soup. It is frequently paired with 湯 to clarify its nature as a thick, creamy soup, as the loanword alone might sound slightly incomplete to some speakers. You will mostly encounter this on menus in local tea restaurants or Western-style cafes.
Measure word
wun2碗wúnExamples
The chowder at this restaurant is very famous.
Do you prefer drinking chowder or borscht?
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Common phrases
chowder soup
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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.
