綠衣房

Chinese

		early colonial policeman; policeman	house
trad. (綠衣房)		綠衣	房
simp. (绿衣房)		绿衣	房

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): luk⁶ ji¹ fong⁴

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: luk⁶ ji¹ fong⁴
  - Yale: luhk yī fòhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: luk⁹ ji¹ fong⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: lug⁶ yi¹ fong⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lʊk̚² jiː⁵⁵ fɔːŋ²¹/

Noun

綠衣房

(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]:
  
  第十六課　去綠衣房 [Cantonese, trad.]
  第十六课　去绿衣房 [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:
  
  第一號綠衣房 [Cantonese, trad.]
  第一号绿衣房 [Cantonese, simp.]
  dai⁶ jat¹ hou⁶ luk⁶ ji¹ fong⁴ [Jyutping]
  First precinct station house.

References

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

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