夜香
je6 hoeng1yè xiāng
English
- noun; night stool; night soil
- excrement, "night soil", "shit", the smell from the chamber pot pouring in mid-night; literally: night fragrance
粵語 — Cantonese
- 屎;糞便;響未有抽水馬桶嘅年代,政府會派人凌晨時份清倒屎塔(馬桶),意指「響半夜聞到嘅異香(臭味)」
Examples
灣仔藍屋有70幾年歷史,由於裏面冇裝抽水馬桶,係少數仲要倒夜香嘅古老住宅。
The blue house in Wanchai has over seventy years of history. As it lacks flush toilets, it is one of the few old buildings where people must empty chamber pots at night.
Sources: cc-canto, rime-cantonese, words.hk