for these characters being included is to allow for the Hong Kong Police to record criminal suspects' statements. Consequently, these characters are now also in Unicode. In Hong Kong Cantonese, yiu (), tiu (), siu (), chiu (), biu (), and hiu () are all minced oaths for diu, as they all rhyme with "iu". See also Cantonese profanity Hong Kong Cantonese References Further reading Robert S. Bauer and Paul K. Benedict (1997). Modern Cantonese Phonology. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. . Part of the chapter 3 concerns the "bad" words in Cantonese. Kingsley Bolton and Christopher Hutton, "Bad boys and bad language: chou hau and the sociolinguistics of swearwords in Hong Kong Cantonese", in Grant Evans and Maria Tam ed. (1997). Hong Kong: the Anthropology of a Chinese Metropolis. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. . External links 廣州話粗口研究網 広東語の粗口 Culture of Hong Kong Cantonese words and phrases Cantonese profanity