鳩嗚
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Chinese
| without reason; frivolously; carelessly | (onomat. for humming) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (鳩嗚) | 鳩 | 嗚 | |
| simp. (鸠呜) | 鸠 | 呜 | |
Etymology
From Mandarin 購物／购物 (gòuwù, “shopping”), from an Internet meme in 2014. During a news report, an anti-Occupy Central protester was asked why she was at the protest. She forgot how to say “shopping” in Cantonese and replied with gòuwù, exposing her identity as a Mainlander.
Pronunciation
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: gau1 wu1
- Yale: gāu wū
- Cantonese Pinyin: gau1 wu1
- Guangdong Romanization: geo1 wu1
- Sinological IPA (key): /kɐu̯⁵⁵ wuː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Verb
鳩嗚 (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism)
Synonyms
- (to go shopping):