央求

Chinese

		centre; to implore	to seek; to look for; to request to seek; to look for; to request; to demand; to beseech
trad. (央求)		央	求
simp. #(央求)		央	求

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yāngqiú

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄤ ㄑㄧㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): joeng¹ kau⁴
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): yong¹ giu² / yeng¹ giu²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iong-kiû / iang-kiû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yāngqiú
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄤ ㄑㄧㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yangcióu
    • Wade–Giles: yang¹-chʻiu²
    • Yale: yāng-chyóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iangchyou
    • Palladius: янцю (jancju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: joeng¹ kau⁴
    • Yale: yēung kàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: joeng¹ kau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yêng¹ keo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jœːŋ⁵⁵ kʰɐu̯²¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: yong¹ giu² [Phonetic: yong⁵ giu²]
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: io̤ng-giú
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yɒŋ⁵³³⁻²¹ kiu¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: yeng¹ giu² [Phonetic: yeng⁵ giu²]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yøŋ⁵³³⁻²¹ kiu¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iong-kiû
    • Tâi-lô: iong-kiû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iongkiuu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kiu²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iɔŋ³³ kiu²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iang-kiû
    • Tâi-lô: iang-kiû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iangkiuu
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kiu¹³/

Verb

央求

1. to implore; to plead; to beg

Synonyms

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• 乞丐 (qǐgài) (archaic)
• 乞憐 / 乞怜 (qǐlián) (to beg for pity)
• 乞求 (qǐqiú)
• 哀告 (āigào)
• 哀求 (āiqiú)
• 央告 (yānggào)
• 憑 / 凭 (píng) (literary)
• 懇求 / 恳求 (kěnqiú)
• 懇請 / 恳请 (kěnqǐng)
• 求 (qiú)
• 沽情 (Hokkien)
• 煩請 / 烦请 (fánqǐng) (honorific, polite)
• 祈求 (qíqiú) (to pray for)
• 祈祝 (qízhù) (literary)
• 祝禱 / 祝祷 (zhùdǎo) (literary)
• 要求 (yāoqiú)
• 請 / 请
• 請求 / 请求 (qǐngqiú)

References

• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 49.