勾芡

Chinese

		affair; to reach for (with hand); to cancel affair; to reach for (with hand); to cancel; to delineate; hook	Euryale ferox; cornstarch
trad. (勾芡)		勾	芡
simp. #(勾芡)		勾	芡

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gōuqiàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄡ ㄑㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngau¹ him³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gōuqiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄡ ㄑㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gouciàn
    • Wade–Giles: kou¹-chʻien⁴
    • Yale: gōu-chyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gouchiann
    • Palladius: гоуцянь (goucjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngau¹ him³
    • Yale: ngāu him
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngau¹ him³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngeo¹ him³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɐu̯⁵⁵ hiːm³³/

Verb

勾芡

1. to thicken a soup by means of starch

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 勾芡 (“to thicken a soup by means of starch”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		勾芡
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	勾芡兒, 勾芡
	Taiwan	勾芡
Jilu Mandarin	Tianjin	勾滷兒
	Jinan	勾芡
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	勾芡
	Wanrong	勾芡
	Xining	勾芡
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	勾芡
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	勾芡, 淋芡
	Guiyang	勾芡
	Liuzhou	打芡
Cantonese	Guangzhou	打芡
	Hong Kong	打芡
	Taishan	打河
	Dongguan	打芡
Hakka	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	牽粉
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	牽漿
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	芡
Southern Min	Xiamen	牽滷, 拍滷, 牽羹, 譴滷, 徛滷
	Quanzhou	譴滷, 寄滷, 兜羹
	Zhangzhou	牽滷, 拍滷, 譴滷, 徛滷, 兜粉
	Kaohsiung	牽粉
	Yilan	牽羹
	Changhua (Lukang)	牽羹
	Taichung	牽粉
	Taichung (Wuqi)	牽羹
	Tainan	牽羹
	Taitung	牽粉
	Hsinchu	牽羹
	Penghu (Magong)	牽粉
	Singapore (Hokkien)	牽滷, 拍滷, 譴滷
	Bangkok (Teochew)	拍滷
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	打芡, 打滷子
Wu	Shanghai	著膩
	Suzhou	著膩
	Ningbo	鑽漿