交吉

Chinese

		to deliver; to turn over; to make friends to deliver; to turn over; to make friends; to intersect (lines); to pay (money)	lucky; Jilin Province (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (交吉)		交	吉

Etymology

Originally 交空 (gaau¹ hung¹). 空 (hung¹, “vacant”) is homophonous with 凶 (hung¹, “ferocious; inauspicious”), thus changed to 吉 (gat¹, “auspicious”) by taboo.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaau¹ gat¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaau¹ gat¹
    • Yale: gāau gāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaau¹ gat⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: gao¹ ged¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaːu̯⁵⁵ kɐt̚⁵/

Verb

交吉

1. (Cantonese) to deliver the vacant possession of a property