探花

Chinese

		to explore; to search out; to scout to explore; to search out; to scout; to visit	flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern
trad. (探花)		探	花
simp. #(探花)		探	花
Literally: “flower snatcher”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tànhuā

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˋ ㄏㄨㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taam³ faa¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thàm-hoe / thàm-hoa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tànhuā
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˋ ㄏㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tànhua
    • Wade–Giles: tʻan⁴-hua¹
    • Yale: tàn-hwā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tannhua
    • Palladius: таньхуа (tanʹxua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰän⁵¹ xu̯ä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: taam³ faa¹
    • Yale: taam fā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taam³ faa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tam³ fa¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːm³³ faː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Longyan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thàm-hoe
    • Tâi-lô: thàm-hue
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tarmhoef
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰam¹¹⁻⁵³ hue⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰam²¹⁻⁴¹ hue⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Longyan): /tʰam²¹³⁻²¹ hue³³⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thàm-hoa
    • Tâi-lô: thàm-hua
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tarmhoaf
    • IPA (Philippines): /tʰam⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ hua³³/

Noun

探花

1. (historical) tanhua; person who came third in the palace examination of the imperial examination system, below zhuangyuan and bangyan
2. (Philippine Hokkien, dice games) a dice roll of either, three of a kind (with two sets of three dice of the same face, except four) or straight (with all die faces in sequence) in a Mooncake Festival Dice Game

   Synonyms: 對堂 / 对堂 (duìtáng), 榜眼 (bǎngyǎn)

Verb

探花

1. (slang) to secretly film sex with a prostitute to share on the Internet

Derived terms

• 探花使

References

• 郭启熹 [Guo, Qixi], editor (2016), “探花”, in 龙岩方言词典 LONGYAN FANGYAN CIDIAN [Dictionary of Longyan dialect] (overall work in Min Nan and Mandarin), Xiamen: 鷺江出版社 [Lujiang Publishing House], →ISBN, page 274.