南兄

Chinese

		south	elder brother
simp. and trad. (南兄)		南	兄

Pronunciation

• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): nang² hia¹ / nang² hiaⁿ¹

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• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: nang² hia¹ [Phonetic: nang⁵ mia¹]
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: náng-hiaⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /naŋ¹³⁻²¹ ^(h-)mia⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: nang² hiaⁿ¹ [Phonetic: nang⁵ mia¹]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /naŋ¹³⁻²¹ ^(h-)mia⁵³³/

Noun

南兄

1. (Puxian Min) man from other places
   1. (specifically) man from southern Fujian

Synonyms

• (non-local men):

Dialectal synonyms of 外地人 (“one who is not born in the area; non-local; stranger; outsider; out-of-towner”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		外地人
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	外路塊 derogatory
	Xi'an	外處人, 外地人
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	外鄉人
Southwestern Mandarin	Liuzhou	外鄉佬
Cantonese	Guangzhou	外江佬
Hakka	Meixian	外鄉人, 外江佬
Northern Min	Jian'ou	別地人, 外處人
Southern Min	Xiamen	外位人, 外位仔人, 外面人, 外江人
	Quanzhou	外面人
	Jinjiang	外江人
	Zhangzhou	外位人, 外位仔人, 外江人
	Shantou	外地人, 外江佬
Puxian Min	Putian	外地人, 客人, 客人哥 male, 客婆 female, 客邊 joking, 客囝, 南兄 male, 南婆 female, 客鬼 derogatory
	Xianyou	外地人, 客人, 客人哥 male, 客婆 female, 客邊 joking, 客囝, 南兄 male, 南婆 female, 客鬼 derogatory
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	外頭人
Wu	Shanghai	外頭人
	Danyang	外頭人
	Ningbo	外頭人
Xiang	Loudi	外鄉人

• (men from southern Fujian):
  • 下南兄

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), “南兄”, 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 395.