zing1 taam3偵探侦探
Jyutpingzing1 taam3
Yalejīng taam
Definition
Detective or investigator; a person hired to conduct investigations.
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How it's used
Refers primarily to professional private investigators or characters in fiction. When discussing police investigators, locals usually prefer using 差人 or 探員 instead of this term. It carries a slightly dramatic or literary weight, often associated with mystery stories or formal investigative work.
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He really likes reading detective novels.
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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.
