粵

分fan1號hou6

simp分号
fan1 hou6fan1 hou2fēn hào

English

  1. semicolon
  2. branch (of a business, shop etc)
  3. branch (store)
  4. (Chinese punctuation) semi-colon

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 同一個集團喺中心之外嘅地方用同一個名開嘅舖頭(量詞:間)
  2. 中文嘅標點符號「;」,同逗號功能相近,但係用法嚴格好多,連接力亦都更加強,淨係連接並列複句、因果或轉折長句嘅前後部分,以及列舉嘅分項

Examples

  • 尽管程序设计师天天都会用到分号,大多数人只把分号用在表情中。

    Where programmers use semi-colons every day, the majority of people only use them in emoticons.

    Tatoeba · dericteng CC BY

  • 集團嘅分號遍佈全國。

    The group's branches are nationwide.

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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