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
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	偷人兒, 偷人
	Taiwan	偷漢子
	Harbin	偷漢子, 偷漢
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	偷人
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	偷人
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	偷人
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	偷人
Cantonese	Guangzhou	勾佬
	Hong Kong	勾佬
Gan	Nanchang	偷人
	Pingxiang	偷人
Hakka	Nanxiong (Zhuji)	偷表哥, 偷人
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	同契哥
	Miaoli (Gongguan; N. Sixian)	同契哥
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; N. Sixian)	同契哥
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	同契哥
	Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian)	同契哥
	Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian)	同契哥
	Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian)	同契哥
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	同契哥
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	同契哥
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	同契哥
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping)	討契哥, 同契哥
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	跈契兄, 鬥契兄
Southern Min	Xiamen	討契兄, 偷咬雞
	Jinjiang	討契兄
	Zhangzhou	討契兄, 討儂
	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	Zhongshan (Sanxiang)	勾佬
Wu	Shanghai	吃野食
	Danyang	偷人