綠衣房

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Chinese

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policeman; immigration official house
trad. (綠衣房) 綠衣
simp. (绿衣房) 绿衣

Pronunciation

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Noun

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綠衣房

  1. (American (–1980) Cantonese) police station
    • 1888, T. L. Stedman, K. P. Lee, Phrase Book in the Canton Dialect or Dialogues on Ordinary and Familiar Subjects [英語不求人]:
      十六 綠衣房 [Cantonese, trad.]
      十六 绿衣房 [Cantonese, simp.]
      dai6 sap6 luk6 fo3, heoi3 luk6 ji1 fong4 [Jyutping]
      Lesson 16. At a Police Station.
    • 1901, 李壬 [Paul Lee Gyim], Chinese-English Elementary Reader and Arithmetic [英語尋源兼算學], page 46:
      綠衣房 [Cantonese, trad.]
      绿衣房 [Cantonese, simp.]
      dai6 jat1 hou6 luk6 ji1 fong4 [Jyutping]
      First precinct station house.

References

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  • Lorraine Dong, Marlon K. Hom (1980) “Chinatown Chinese: The San Francisco Dialect”, in Amerasia[1]