粵典 (words.hk)香港詞
徵兆、意頭好 (lucky; fortune; propitious)
形容詞用例
「八」同「發」嘅廣東話讀音相似,所以八係個吉利嘅數字。
baat3 tung4 faat3 ge3 gwong2 dung1 waa2 duk6 jam1 soeng1 ci5, so2 ji5 baat3 hai6 go3 gat1 lei6 ge3 sou3 zi6.
baat3"(eight) has a similar pronunciation as "faat3"(to get rich), so it is a lucky number.