綠衣房
Chinese
early colonial policeman; policeman | house | ||
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trad. (綠衣房) | 綠衣 | 房 | |
simp. (绿衣房) | 绿衣 | 房 |
Pronunciation
Noun
綠衣房
- (American (–1980) Cantonese) police station
- 1888, T. L. Stedman and 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.]
- dai6 sap6 luk6 fo3, heoi3 luk6 ji1 fong4 [Jyutping]
- Lesson 16. At a Police Station.
第十六课 去绿衣房 [Cantonese, simp.]
- 1901, Paul Lee Gyim [李壬], Chinese-English Elementary Reader and Arithmetic [英語尋源兼算學], page 46:
- 第一號綠衣房 [Cantonese, trad.]
- dai6 jat1 hou6 luk6 ji1 fong4 [Jyutping]
- First precinct station house.
第一号绿衣房 [Cantonese, simp.]
References
- Lorraine Dong; Marlon K. Hom (1980), “Chinatown Chinese: The San Francisco Dialect”, in Amerasia