手形

Chinese

		hand; convenient; ‑er	to appear; to look; form to appear; to look; form; shape
simp. and trad. (手形)		手	形

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 手(て)形(がた) (tegata).

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhiú-hêng

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiú-hêng
    • Tâi-lô: tshiú-hîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiw'heeng
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hiɪŋ²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hiɪŋ²⁴/

Noun

手形

1. (Taiwanese Hokkien) cheque

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 支票 (“cheque”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		支票
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	支票
	Singapore	支票
Cantonese	Guangzhou	支票, 則紙
	Hong Kong	支票, cheque
	Rongxian	支票
	Bangkok (Guangfu)	支票, cheque
	Betong (Rongxian)	cheque
Hakka	Meixian	支票
	Jiexi	支票
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	支票
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	支票
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	支票
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	支票
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	支票
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	支票, 錢票
Southern Min	Xiamen	支票
	Quanzhou	支票
	Zhangzhou	支票
	Zhao'an	支票
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	支票, 手形
	Tainan (Anping)	支票, 手形
	Penang (Hokkien)	cheque
	Manila (Hokkien)	cheque, 支票
	Chaozhou	支票
	Bangkok (Teochew)	支票, cheque
	Chiang Mai (Teochew)	銀行票, cheque
	Hat Yai (Teochew)	cheque
Wu	Hangzhou	支票

References

• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “手形”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1], volume 2 (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC, page 147
• “Entry #13668”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
手	形
て Grade: 1	かた > がた Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Noun

手(て)形(がた) • (tegata) 

1. handprint
2. bill, draft