勾佬

Chinese

		affair; to reach for (with hand); to cancel affair; to reach for (with hand); to cancel; to delineate; hook	man; guy
trad. (勾佬)		勾	佬
simp. #(勾佬)		勾	佬

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngau¹ lou²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngau¹ lou²
    • Yale: ngāu lóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngau¹ lou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngeo¹ lou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɐu̯⁵⁵ lou̯³⁵/

Verb

勾佬

1. (Cantonese, Zhongshan Min, of a woman) to seduce a man; to cheat on her husband; to have an affair with a man

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 偷漢子 (“(of a woman) to take a lover; to cheat”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		偷漢子, 偷漢, 偷人, 紅杏出牆
Mandarin	Beijing	偷人兒, 偷人
	Taiwan	偷漢子
	Harbin	偷漢子, 偷漢
	Wanrong	偷人
	Ürümqi	偷人
	Chengdu	偷人
	Yangzhou	偷人
Cantonese	Guangzhou	勾佬
	Hong Kong	勾佬
Gan	Nanchang	偷人
	Pingxiang	偷人
Southern Min	Xiamen	討契兄, 偷咬雞
	Jinjiang	討契兄
	Zhangzhou	討契兄
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	討契兄
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	討契兄
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	討契兄
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	討契兄
	Yilan (Toucheng)	討契兄
	Tainan	討契兄, 偷咬雞仔
	Tainan (Anping)	討契兄, 偷咬雞仔
	Penghu (Xiyu)	討契兄
Zhongshan Min	Sanxiang	勾佬
Wu	Shanghai	吃野食
	Danyang	偷人