收埋

Chinese

		to receive; to accept; to collect to receive; to accept; to collect; in care of (used on address line after name)	to blame; bury
simp. and trad. (收埋)		收	埋

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau¹ maai⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sû-mài
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): siu¹ bai²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siu-bâi

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sau¹ maai⁴
    • Yale: sāu màaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau¹ maai⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo¹ mai⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯⁵⁵ maːi̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sû-mài
    • Hakka Romanization System: su^ˊ mai^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: su¹ mai²
    • Sinological IPA: /su²⁴ mai̯¹¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: siu¹ bai² [Phonetic: siu⁵ ai²]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiu⁵³³⁻²¹ ^(p-)ai¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: siu¹ bai² [Phonetic: siu⁵ bhai²]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiu⁵³³⁻²¹ ^(p-)βai¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siu-bâi
    • Tâi-lô: siu-bâi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siu'baai
    • IPA (Taipei): /siu⁴⁴⁻³³ bai²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siu⁴⁴⁻³³ bai²³/

Verb

收埋

1. (Cantonese) to hide (something)
2. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to bury a corpse
3. (Puxian Min) to put a corpse in a coffin; to encoffin

Synonyms

• (to encoffin):

edit

• 上材 (shan⁵ zai⁶) (Xiang)
• 下營 / 下营 (Puxian Min)
• 入木 (Puxian Min, Hokkien)
• 入棺 (Leizhou Min)
• 入殮 / 入殓 (rùliàn)
• 收 (Puxian Min)
• 落棺 (Hokkien)

Derived terms

• 收收埋埋

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “收埋”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 498.