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沙展
  saa1 zin2   jyutping
sergeant

沙展 is a phonetic loan from the English word 'sergeant'. It is officially known as 警長 but better known as 三柴 in slang due to the three 'firewood' stripes on the uniform.
In the police hierarchy of HK, a sergeant is ranked between a station sergeant and a senior constable.
noun

Level: 2   Google Frequency: 9,640

This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
沙展

This word has been viewed 1977 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by bybell on 11th Aug 2005 03:26 and last edited on 4th Nov 2011 15:00
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Characters in this word:

 saa1  -  sand
 zin2  -  open up; expand; prolong; exhibit
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