kaishao

plural kaishaos · alternative kai shao · alternative kai-shao · alternative kaysiao · alternative kaisiao · alternative kaixiao

1. PhilippinesChinese Filipinomatchmaking; a romantic arrangement to set up a date between two people

   Her mother has already met two ladies specializing in the "介紹 kaishao business." They brought her custom bounded books with peoples' information on them.

   2022, Casey Huang, Move on Quick: How to Get Your Life Back and Never Break Your Heart Again, page 111

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   "Should I be the one to bring up what happened in church? Should I even mention it? If I act like it wasn't a big deal, maybe Pa will tell Auntie Queenie that kaishaos don't work on me. But what if my silence signals to them that I was totally fine with it?

   2023, Mae Coyiuto, Chloe and the Kaishao Boys, page 80

   Our guest was a boy named Gary Cheng, and he met Achi through a kai-shao arranged by father and Gary's father. "Kai-shao" wasn't listed in the dictionary, but mother explained that it was like a blind date. I thought that meant Gary was blind, but mother said it meant that the people going on the date had never met each other before, because it was arranged by mutual friends or family instead.

   2012, Erin Chupeco, “Ho-We”, in Charles Tan, editor, Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology, Maple Shade, New Jersey: Lethe Press, Inc., page 21

present singular third person kaishaos · participle present kaishaoing · participle past kaishaoed · past kaishaoed · alternative kai shao · alternative kai-shao · alternative kaysiao · alternative kaisiao · alternative kaixiao

1. PhilippinesChinese Filipinoto matchmake; to set up; to introduce a possible romantic partner

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   "There might be a small... slight chance that we're getting set up." I sigh. "But I didn't ask for this," I quickly clarify. "Auntie Queenie was weirded out that I didn't have guy friends for the roses in my debut, and she brought up wanting to kaishao me with someone. So you're, like, the kaishao boy." His judgy eyebrow is on full blast. "Kaishao boy?" "They basically used church as an excuse for ambush matchmaking."

   2023, Mae Coyiuto, Chloe and the Kaishao Boys, pages 74–75