水炮車

Chinese

		water cannon	vehicle on land; car; machine vehicle on land; car; machine; to shape with a lathe
trad. (水炮車)		水炮	車
simp. (水炮车)		水炮	车

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi² paau³ ce¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi² paau³ ce¹
    • Yale: séui paau chē
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey² paau³ tse¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu² pao³ cé¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³⁵ pʰaːu̯³³ t͡sʰɛː⁵⁵/

Noun

水炮車

1. (Hong Kong, informal) police water cannon
2. (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang, derogatory) wife of a policeman
   • 2022 June 29, “涉拍攝警司妻和指罵為「水炮車」　男子被控遊蕩　官裁表證不成立”, in 香港01‎^[1]:

     「點啊，水炮車？你想點啊，水炮車？」 [Hong Kong Cantonese, trad.]
     「点啊，水炮车？你想点啊，水炮车？」 [Hong Kong Cantonese, simp.]

     “dim² aa³, seoi² paau³ ce¹? nei⁵ soeng² dim² aa³, seoi² paau³ ce¹?” [Jyutping]

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