喺

喺	U+55BA, 喺 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55BA

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

喺 (radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口人竹火 (ROHF), composition ⿰口係)

simp. and trad.		喺
variant forms		o係 Internet 匸𫪈

Characters in the same phonetic series (系) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
係	*keːɡs
系	*ɡeːɡs

喺

(Cantonese)

be ...-ing; in the middle of doing something (indicating an action in progress)
to exist; to be (located)
我而家喺香港。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]
Ngo⁵ ji⁴ gaa¹ hai² hoeng¹ gong². [Jyutping]
I am in Hong Kong now.
(located) in; at; within
喺架車入便 / 喺架车入便 [Cantonese] ― hai² gaa³ ce¹ jap⁶ bin⁶ [Jyutping] ― inside the car
(temporal) in
喺2012 [Cantonese] ― hai² 2012 [Jyutping] ― in 2012
within; in
喺英文度 [Cantonese] ― hai² jing¹ man⁴ dou⁶ [Jyutping] ― within English

Dialectal synonyms of 在 (“at, in”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		於
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		在
Mandarin	Beijing	在, 挨, 跟
	Taiwan	在
	Jinan	在, 從
	Xi'an	在
	Wuhan	在
	Chengdu	在
	Yangzhou	在
	Hefei	在
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	在
Cantonese	Guangzhou	喺, 響
	Hong Kong	喺, 響
	Foshan	喺, 響
	Shunde	喺
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	在
	Doumen (Shangheng Tanka)	響, 揀
	Doumen	揀
	Taishan	到, 響
	Kaiping (Chikan)	到
	Dongguan	響, 在, 喺
	Yangjiang	在
Gan	Nanchang	在
Hakka	Meixian	喺
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	在
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	在
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	在
	Dongshi (Dabu)	在
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	在
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	在
Jin	Taiyuan	在
Min Bei	Jian'ou	到
Min Dong	Fuzhou	著, 在, 洽
Min Dong	Fuqing	著, 洽
Min Nan	Xiamen	佇, 踮
	Quanzhou	佇
	Zhangzhou	佇
	Taipei	佇, 踮 mT
	Kaohsiung	佇
	Tainan	佇
	Taichung	佇
	Hsinchu	佇
	Lukang	佇
	Sanxia	佇
	Yilan	佇
	Kinmen	佇
	Magong	佇
	Penang	佇
	Philippines (Manila)	佇
	Chaozhou	在
	Shantou	在
Wu	Shanghai	辣, 辣辣, 辣海
	Suzhou	勒
	Wenzhou	是
Xiang	Changsha	在
Xiang	Shuangfeng	在
Note	mT - mainstream Taiwanese (no particular region identified)

Not to be confused with 係／系 (hai6, “to be”).
While Mandarin 在 (zài) can be used by itself as a verb (他現在不在 "he is not here right now"), Cantonese must use 喺度 (佢而家唔喺度 "he is not here right now").

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