zyun2 zit3轉折转折
Jyutpingzyun2 zit3
Yalejyún jit
Definition
Complicated, indirect, or involving many steps and changes.
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How it's used
Focuses on the inconvenience caused by indirectness or excessive steps in a process. While often used for travel routes involving multiple transfers, it is equally common when describing bureaucratic procedures or convoluted plans that could be simplified. It carries a sense of frustration with the inefficiency of the situation.
Examples
It is very complicated to get here from the airport, you have to change vehicles several times.
Do you have to make it so complicated? Just taking a taxi would be fine.
Related words
Common mistake
Do not confuse this with 轉彎, which refers to a physical turn in the road or a change in direction. 轉折 specifically highlights the complexity and hassle of a multi-stage process rather than just a change in orientation.
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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.
