買鐘

Chinese

		buy	clock; time as measured in hours and minutes; bell
trad. (買鐘)		買	鐘
simp. (买钟)		买	钟

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): maai⁵ zung¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: maai⁵ zung¹
  - Yale: máaih jūng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: maai⁵ dzung¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: mai⁵ zung¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːi̯¹³ t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/

Verb

買鐘

(literally) to buy a clock
(Cantonese, slang) to buy the time of a hostess or a prostitute for the purpose of having sex

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