抬轎佬

Chinese

		to carry a sedan chair; to collude in swindling someone's money	man; guy
trad. (抬轎佬)		抬轎	佬
simp. (抬轿佬)		抬轿	佬

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): toi⁴ giu^6-2 lou²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: toi⁴ giu^6-2 lou²
    • Yale: tòih gíu lóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: toi⁴ giu^6-2 lou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: toi⁴ giu^6-2 lou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔːi̯²¹ kiːu̯²²⁻³⁵ lou̯³⁵/

Noun

抬轎佬

1. (Cantonese, Liuzhou Mandarin) sedan chair bearer; palanquin bearer
   • 1842, Samuel Wells Williams, Easy Lessons in Chinese: Or, Progressive Exercises to Facilitate the Study of That Language, Especially Adapted to the Canton Dialect, Macao: the Office of the Chinese Repository, page 95:

     你有使人去呌抬轎佬唔曾呀 [Cantonese, trad.]
     你有使人去呌抬轿佬唔曾呀 [Cantonese, simp.]

     nei⁵ jau⁵ sai² jan⁴ heoi³ giu³ toi⁴ giu^6-2 lou² m⁴ cang⁴ aa³ [Jyutping]

     Have you sent after the chair bearers?

Synonyms

• 轎夫／轿夫 (jiàofū)