警 (ging2 | jing3) : guard; watch; alert; police

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警

ging2

jing3

[1] [v] guard; watch; keep watch [2] [v] alert; warn [3] [n] alarm [4] quick; alert; agile [5] the police

Stroke count: 20

Level: 3

Radical: (#149)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

警

This word has been viewed 9825 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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警察 ging2 caat3 jing3 cha2 = the police

警告 ging2 gou3 jing3 gao4 = to warn; to caution

報警 bou3 ging2 bao4 jing3 = report to the police

警署 ging2 cyu5 = police station 粵

警惕 ging2 tik1 jing3 ti4 = alert; "attention!"; vigilant; to be on guard; to raise one's guard

警戒 ging2 gaai3 jing3 jie4 = to warn; to be alert

警衛 ging2 wai6 jing3 wei4 = security guard

警方 ging2 fong1 jing3 fang1 = the police

警報 ging2 bou3 jing3 bao4 = (fire) alarm, alert, warning

巡警 ceon4 ging2 xun2 jing3 = police officer
See all 74 compounds (CantoDict reports 92 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 5 examples containing 警

呢度有一間警崗粵
There's a police box here.

佢俾警察拉咗去。粵
He was arrested by the police.

我見到呢度有一間唔係好大嘅警崗粵
I can see a police box that's not very big here.
[Lit. I see-arrive here have one [counter] is-not very big [possessive particle] police box. You CANNOT say 唔大 or 唔好大 instead of 唔係好大, although it may sound like either one if a speaker is talking very quickly. 唔大 should be 細.]

政府打算加派警察出街巡邏。粵
The government intends to increase the number of policemen on the beat.
[A typical Cantonese sentence uses more verbs than the English version.]

示威者向警察掟石﹐而警察用橡膠子彈回敬。粵
Protesters threw stones at the police, who responded with rubber bullets.
[Cantonese version has the two prepositional phrases placed before the two verbs; English version has the same placed after. ]

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 警
Unicode code for this character: U+8B66 (off-site link)

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