倭賊

Chinese

		Japanese	thief
trad. (倭賊)		倭	賊
simp. (倭贼)		倭	贼

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wōzéi

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄛ ㄗㄟˊ

• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): o¹ ceh⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wōzéi
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄛ ㄗㄟˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wozéi
    • Wade–Giles: wo¹-tsei²
    • Yale: wō-dzéi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uotzeir
    • Palladius: воцзэй (voczɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔ⁵⁵ t͡seɪ̯³⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: o¹ ceh⁷ [Phonetic: o⁵ ceh⁷]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /o⁵³³⁻²¹ t͡sʰɛʔ⁴/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: o¹ ceh⁷ [Phonetic: o⁵ ceh⁷]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɵ⁵³³⁻²¹ t͡sʰɛʔ²⁴/

Noun

倭賊

1. (literary or Puxian Min, historical) wokou (pirates from a mixture of ethnicities who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th to 16th centuries)
2. (literary or Puxian Min, ethnic slur) Japanese person, a Jap

   • 豈意日本小邦倭賊，背主欺君，拒獻貢禮；不遵王法，藐視中原，侵犯疆土。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     岂意日本小邦倭贼，背主欺君，拒献贡礼；不遵王法，藐视中原，侵犯疆土。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Û Chheng-hong's Proclamation" [余清芳告示文], 1915

     Qǐ yì rìběn xiǎobāng wōzéi, bèi zhǔ qī jūn, jù xiàn gònglǐ; bù zūn wángfǎ, miǎoshì zhōngyuán, qīnfàn jiāngtǔ. [Pinyin]

     Who would have thought that Japan, a petty nation of barbarians, would betray their sovereign and deceive their lord, refusing to pay tribute; they disregard royal law, show contempt for the Central Plains, and violate our territories.

Synonyms

• 倭寇 (wōkòu)

See also

• 流寇 (liúkòu)
• 日寇 (rìkòu)

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “倭贼”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 419.