綠衣房

Chinese

		policeman; immigration official	house
trad. (綠衣房)		綠衣	房
simp. (绿衣房)		绿衣	房

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): luk⁶ ji¹ fong⁴

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: luk⁶ ji¹ fong⁴
    • Yale: luhk yī fòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: luk⁹ ji¹ fong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lug⁶ yi¹ fong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lʊk̚² jiː⁵⁵ fɔːŋ²¹/

Noun

綠衣房

1. (American (–1980) Cantonese) police station
   • 1888, T. L. Stedman, K. P. Lee, Phrase Book in the Canton Dialect or Dialogues on Ordinary and Familiar Subjects [英語不求人]:

     第十六課　去綠衣房 [Cantonese, trad.]
     第十六课　去绿衣房 [Cantonese, simp.]

     dai⁶ sap⁶ luk⁶ fo³, heoi³ luk⁶ ji¹ fong⁴ [Jyutping]

     Lesson 16. At a Police Station.

   • 1901, 李壬 [Paul Lee Gyim], Chinese-English Elementary Reader and Arithmetic [英語尋源兼算學], page 46:

     第一號綠衣房 [Cantonese, trad.]
     第一号绿衣房 [Cantonese, simp.]

     dai⁶ jat¹ hou⁶ luk⁶ ji¹ fong⁴ [Jyutping]

     First precinct station house.

References

• Lorraine Dong, Marlon K. Hom (1980) “Chinatown Chinese: The San Francisco Dialect”, in Amerasia‎^[1]