有冇韭菜

Chinese

		is there? are there? have or not have? Do you/Does he have...?	garlic chive; Chinese chive
trad. (有冇韭菜)		有冇	韭菜
simp. #(有冇韭菜)		有冇	韭菜

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jau⁵ mou⁵ gau² coi³

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jau⁵ mou⁵ gau² coi³
    • Yale: yáuh móuh gáu choi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁵ mou⁵ gau² tsoi³
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeo⁵ mou⁵ geo² coi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯¹³ mou̯¹³ kɐu̯³⁵ t͡sʰɔːi̯³³/

Phrase

有冇韭菜

1. (Cantonese, humorous) Alternative form of 有冇搞錯／有冇搞错 (“Are you serious?; Are you kidding me?; What's wrong with you?”)

   • 「你哋有冇韭菜呀？做嘢慢吞吞！我喺大集團賣麵包嘅，我公司出糧好快，你哋唔好呃我，七日都出唔到嘅話我一定去勞工處告你哋！」 [Cantonese, trad.]
     「你哋有冇韭菜呀？做嘢慢吞吞！我喺大集团卖面包嘅，我公司出粮好快，你哋唔好呃我，七日都出唔到嘅话我一定去劳工处告你哋！」 [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2017, HR小薯蓉, 我係邪惡HR, page 69

     “nei⁵ dei⁶ jau⁵ mou⁵ gau² coi³ aa³? zou⁶ je⁵ maan⁶ tan¹ tan¹! ngo⁵ hai² daai⁶ zaap⁶ tyun⁴ maai⁶ min⁶ baau¹ ge³, ngo⁵ gung¹ si¹ ceot¹ loeng⁴ hou² faai³, nei⁵ dei⁶ m⁴ hou² aak¹ ngo⁵, cat¹ jat⁶ dou¹ ceot¹ m⁴ dou^3-2 ge³ waa^6-2 ngo⁵ jat¹ ding⁶ heoi³ lou⁴ gung¹ cyu³ gou³ nei⁵ dei⁶!” [Jyutping]

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