14.6 Vocabulary: Children in a Family

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If a family has two sons or daughters, we can use 大 daai6 (‘big’) and 細 sai3 (‘small’) to distinguish between them. If a family has more than two sons or daughters, we can use numbers in addition.

SonDaughter
Oldest 大仔
daai6 zai2		 大女
daai6 neoi2
二仔
ji6 zai2		 二女
ji6 neoi2
三仔
saam1 zai2		 三女
saam1 neoi2
Youngest 細仔
sai3 zai2		 細女
sai3 neoi2

Sometimes numbers are also used for the youngest son or daughter (e.g., 二仔 ji6 zai2 for the second and youngest son).

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三仔 saam1 zai2 and 四仔 can mean ‘pornographic videos’.