山珍海味

Chinese

		mountain; hill	precious thing; treasure	seafood; dried seafood
simp. and trad. (山珍海味)		山	珍	海味

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shānzhēnhǎiwèi

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢ ㄓㄣ ㄏㄞˇ ㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saan¹ zan¹ hoi² mei^6-2
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sân-chṳ̂n-hói-mi
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): san-tin-hái-bī

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shānzhēnhǎiwèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄢ ㄓㄣ ㄏㄞˇ ㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shanjhenhǎiwèi
    • Wade–Giles: shan¹-chên¹-hai³-wei⁴
    • Yale: shān-jēn-hǎi-wèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shanjenhaewey
    • Palladius: шаньчжэньхайвэй (šanʹčžɛnʹxajvɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂən⁵⁵ xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ weɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saan¹ zan¹ hoi² mei^6-2
    • Yale: sāan jān hói méi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saan¹ dzan¹ hoi² mei^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: san¹ zen¹ hoi² méi^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːn⁵⁵ t͡sɐn⁵⁵ hɔːi̯³⁵ mei̯²²⁻³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sân-chṳ̂n-hói-mi
    • Hakka Romanization System: san^ˊ ziin^ˊ hoi^ˋ mi
    • Hagfa Pinyim: san¹ zin¹ hoi³ mi⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /san²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sɨn²⁴ hoi̯³¹ mi⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: san-tin-hái-bī
    • Tâi-lô: san-tin-hái-bī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sandinhay'bi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /san⁴⁴⁻²² tin⁴⁴ hai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bi²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /san³³ tin³³ hai⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bi⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /san⁴⁴⁻²² tin⁴⁴ hai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bi²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /san⁴⁴⁻³³ tin⁴⁴ hai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bi³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /san⁴⁴⁻³³ tin⁴⁴ hai⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bi³³/

Idiom

山珍海味

1. exotic delicacies; (by extension) abundant food

   • 阮阿公七十二　每工攏是山珍海味 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     阮阿公七十二　每工拢是山珍海味 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     From: 1989, 宏星特攻隊, lyrics by 李興中, 又閣天黑黑

     Gún a-kong chhit-cha̍p-lī, múi-kang lóng sī san-tin-hái-bī [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     My grandpa, seventy-two years old, eats delicious delicacies everyday

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 山珍海味 (“exotic delicacies; abundant food”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		山珍海味, 山珍海錯
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	山珍海味
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	山珍海味
	Wanrong	山珍海味
Cantonese	Hong Kong	山珍海味
Gan	Nanchang	山珍海味
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	山珍海味
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	山珍海味
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	山珍海味
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	山珍海味
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	山珍海味
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	山珍海味
Jin	Taiyuan	山珍海味
Southern Min	Xiamen	山珍海味
	Tainan	山珍海味

References

• “Entry #393”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.