call G

Chinese

Alternative forms

• callg

Etymology

call (“to call; to summon”) +‎ G (“female prostitute”), from English call +‎ Mandarin 雞 / 鸡 (jī). Compare 召妓 (ziu⁶ gei⁶, “to visit a female prostitute”, literally “to summon a prostitute”).

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ko¹ zi¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ko¹ zi¹
    • Yale: kō jī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ko¹ dzi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ko¹ ji¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɔː⁵⁵ t͡siː⁵⁵/

Verb

call⫽G (verb-object)

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, neologism) to visit a female prostitute

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 嫖娼 (“to visit prostitutes”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		冶遊
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		嫖娼, 嫖妓, 狎妓, 宿娼
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	逛窯子, 打野雞
	Taiwan	嫖妓, 打炮
	Harbin	逛窯子, 打兔兒, 打兔子
	Singapore	嫖妓, 叫雞
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	逛窯子
	Xining	嫖妓
	Xuzhou	鑽狗洞
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	逮貓兒
	Liuzhou	嫖騇
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	嫖媽媽, 打野食
Cantonese	Guangzhou	嫖老舉, 嫖騇, 叫雞, 食雞
	Hong Kong	叫雞, 召妓, 撳鐘仔, call G
	Singapore (Guangfu)	叫雞
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	開細妹仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	開細妹仔
	Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian)	開細妹
	Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian)	屌細妹仔
	Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian)	開細妹仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	開細妹仔
Huizhou	Jixi	打茶會
Jin	Xinzhou	逛窯子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	𢫦炮
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	嫖白面, 食雞
Southern Min	Xiamen	開查某, 開銷
	Quanzhou	開查某, 開銷
	Zhangzhou	開查某, 開銷
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	開查某
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	開查某
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	開查某
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	開查某
	Yilan (Toucheng)	開查某
	Tainan	開查某
	Tainan (Anping)	開查某
	Penghu (Xiyu)	開查某
	Singapore (Hokkien)	叫雞
	Leizhou	放娘
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Sanxiang)	搵雞, 嫖老舉
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	嫖騇
Wu	Shanghai	打野雞, 斬鹹肉
	Danyang	打野雞