安胎

Chinese

		content; calm; still content; calm; still; quiet; to pacify; peace; how	fetus; litter
trad. (安胎)		安	胎
simp. #(安胎)		安	胎
Literally: “to quiet the fetus”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): āntāi

  (Zhuyin): ㄢ ㄊㄞ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): on¹ toi¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): an-thai

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: āntāi
    • Zhuyin: ㄢ ㄊㄞ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: antai
    • Wade–Giles: an¹-tʻai¹
    • Yale: ān-tāi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: antai
    • Palladius: аньтай (anʹtaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀän⁵⁵ tʰaɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: on¹ toi¹
    • Yale: ōn tōi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: on¹ toi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: on¹ toi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔːn⁵⁵ tʰɔːi̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: an-thai
    • Tâi-lô: an-thai
    • Phofsit Daibuun: antay
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /an⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰai⁴⁴/

Verb

安胎

1. (traditional Chinese medicine) to prevent a miscarriage in a pregnant female, especially one suffering a threatened miscarriage or recurrent miscarriage