敗家鬼

Chinese

		to make the family fall into reduced circumstances; to dissipate the family fortune	ghost; sly; crafty
trad. (敗家鬼)		敗家	鬼
simp. (败家鬼)		败家	鬼

Pronunciation

• Northern Min (KCR): bāi-gá-gṳ̌

---

• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: bāi-gá-gṳ̌
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pai⁵⁵ ka⁵⁴ ky²¹/

Noun

敗家鬼

1. (Northern Min, Leizhou Min, Jinhua Wu) spendthrift; squanderer; prodigal son

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 敗家子 (“spendthrift; squanderer”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		敗子
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		敗家子
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	敗家子兒, 敗家玩意兒
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	敗家子
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	敗家子兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	敗家子兒, 敲鍋錘兒
	Xi'an	敗家子兒, 海巴子
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	敗家子兒
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	敗家子
	Wuhan	敗家子, 八敗星
	Guiyang	敗家子
	Liuzhou	敗家崽
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	敗子, 敗家子
	Yangzhou	敗家星, 敗家精
Cantonese	Guangzhou	敗家仔, 敗家精, 風水尾
	Hong Kong	敗家仔
	Taishan	敗家仔
	Dongguan	敗家仔
Gan	Nanchang	敗子
	Lichuan	敗家子
	Pingxiang	敗子
Hakka	Meixian	敗家子
	Yudu	敗家精, 敗家子
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	敗家子, 了尾子
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	敗家子
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	敗家子, 了尾子
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	敗家子, 了尾子
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	敗家子, 了尾子
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	敗家子, 了尾子
Huizhou	Jixi	敗家子
Jin	Taiyuan	敗家子, 埋鍋倒竈的
	Xinzhou	敗家子, 踢家業哩
Northern Min	Jian'ou	敗家鬼, 落敗星
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	敗囝
Southern Min	Xiamen	敗統囝, 破敗囝, 謝能舍, 了家仔
	Quanzhou	瀉敗囝
	Zhangzhou	破敗囝, 𨑨迌囡仔
	Tainan	討債囝 GT, 謝能舍 GT
	Shantou	敗家囝, 破家囝
	Jieyang	敗家囝, 破家囝
	Leizhou	敗家鬼
	Haikou	敗家囝
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	敗家崽
Wu	Shanghai	敗家子, 敗家精
	Shanghai (Chongming)	敗家星
	Suzhou	敗家精
	Danyang	敗子, 敗家精, 敗家貨, 敗貨, 破敗精
	Hangzhou	敗家子
	Ningbo	敗家精, 敗子, 敗家子
	Jinhua	敗家鬼, 敗子兒, 了了哥兒
	Jinhua (Tangxi)	敗家囝
Xiang	Changsha	敗家子
	Loudi	敗家子
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)