新婦仔

Chinese

	bride; daughter-in-law	minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility
trad. (新婦仔)	新婦	仔
simp. (新妇仔)	新妇	仔
alternative forms	新抱仔 Cantonese 心抱仔 Cantonese

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): san¹ pou⁵ zai² / sam¹ pou⁵ zai²
Northern Min (KCR): séng-bṳ̀-ciě
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sin-pū-á / sin-pǔ-á / sin-pū--á / sim-pū-á

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: san¹ pou⁵ zai² / sam¹ pou⁵ zai²
  - Yale: sān póuh jái / sām póuh jái
  - Cantonese Pinyin: san¹ pou⁵ dzai² / sam¹ pou⁵ dzai²
  - Guangdong Romanization: sen¹ pou⁵ zei² / sem¹ pou⁵ zei²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐn⁵⁵ pʰou̯¹³ t͡sɐi̯³⁵/, /sɐm⁵⁵ pʰou̯¹³ t͡sɐi̯³⁵/
Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: séng-bṳ̀-ciě
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /seiŋ⁵⁴ py⁴² t͡siɛ²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Taichung, Hsinchu, Sanxia, Yilan, Tainan, Kinmen, Penang)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sin-pū-á
  - Tâi-lô: sin-pū-á
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sinpu'ar
  - IPA (Tainan, Tainan): /sin⁴⁴⁻³³ pu³³⁻¹¹ a⁵³/
  - IPA (Kinmen): /sin⁴⁴⁻²² pu²²⁻¹² a⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /sin⁴⁴⁻³³ pu³³ a⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sin⁴⁴⁻³³ pu³³ a⁴¹/
  - IPA (Penang): /sin³³⁻²¹ pu²¹ a⁴⁴⁵/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sin⁴⁴⁻²² pu²²⁻²¹ a⁵³/
  - IPA (Yilan): /sin⁴⁴⁻³³ pu³³⁻²¹ a⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Lukang)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sin-pǔ-á
  - Tâi-lô: sin-pǔ-á
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sin³³ pu²² a⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Lukang): /sin³³ pu³³⁻²² a⁵⁵/
- (Hokkien: Magong)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sin-pū--á
  - Tâi-lô: sin-pū--á
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sim-pū-á
  - Tâi-lô: sim-pū-á
  - Phofsit Daibuun: simpu'ar
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sim⁴⁴⁻²² pu²²⁻²¹ a⁵³/

Noun

新婦仔

(Cantonese, Northern Min, Southern Min, historical) tongyangxi; girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law; child bride
(Lukang, Tainan and Yilan Hokkien) adopted daughter

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 童養媳 (“child bride”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		童養媳
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	團圓媳婦兒
	Taiwan	童養媳
	Harbin	小媳婦兒, 團圓媳婦兒
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	團養子媳婦
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	童養媳
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	囤養媳婦兒
	Wanrong	童養媳婦
	Xi'an	囤養媳
	Xuzhou	團兒媳婦
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	團媳婦子
	Lanzhou	童養媳婦子
	Ürümqi	童養媳兒
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	小接媳婦兒, 童養媳
	Wuhan	小媳婦
	Guiyang	童養媳
	Liuzhou	小媳婦
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	秧媳婦
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	小媳婦子, 小媳婦
Mandarin	Fuzhou (Qinjiang, Changle)	談圓媳婦
Mandarin	Nanping (Yanping)	媳婦崽
Cantonese	Guangzhou	新婦仔
	Hong Kong	新婦仔
	Dongguan	新婦仔
	Yangjiang	雞竹妹
Gan	Nanchang	童娘子
	Lichuan	屯養新婦
	Pingxiang	細新婦
Hakka	Meixian	細心臼仔, 細心臼, 等郎妹
	Xingning	等郎妹
	Yudu	食奶新婦, 食奶女子
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	細心臼仔
	Miaoli (Gongguan; N. Sixian)	心臼仔
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; N. Sixian)	心臼仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	細心臼仔
	Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian)	心臼仔
	Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian)	細心臼
	Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian)	童養媳
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	細心臼仔, 花囤女
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	細心臼
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	細新婦仔, 花囤女
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping)	細心臼
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	新婦子
Huizhou	Jixi	細新婦
Jin	Taiyuan	童養媳婦兒
Jin	Xinzhou	童養子媳婦兒
Northern Min	Jian'ou	新婦仔
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	新婦囝
	Fuzhou (Changle)	新婦囝
	Fuqing	新婦囝
	Yongtai	新婦囝
	Gutian	新婦囝
	Fu'an	新婦囝
	Ningde	新婦囝
	Shouning	新婦囝
	Zhouning	新婦囝
	Fuding	新婦囝
Southern Min	Xiamen	新婦仔
	Quanzhou	新婦仔
	Zhangzhou	新婦仔
	Taipei	新婦仔
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	新婦仔
	Kaohsiung	新婦仔
	Yilan	新婦仔
	Changhua (Lukang)	新婦仔育, 新婦仔
	Taichung	新婦仔
	Taichung (Wuqi)	新婦仔
	Tainan	新婦仔
	Taitung	新婦仔
	Hsinchu	新婦仔
	Kinmen	新婦仔
	Penghu (Magong)	新婦仔
	Penang (Hokkien)	新婦仔
	Longyan	新婦崽仔
	Shantou	新婦囝
	Jieyang	嫂囝, 新婦囝
	Leizhou	新婦囝
	Haikou	飼新婦
Puxian Min	Putian	新婦囝
Puxian Min	Xianyou	新婦囝
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	童養媳
Wu	Shanghai	養新婦, 童養媳
	Shanghai (Chongming)	養新婦
	Suzhou	養新婦
	Wuxi	養新婦
	Danyang	養新婦
	Hangzhou	養媳婦兒
	Ningbo	養生新婦, 養生
	Wenzhou	新婦兒
	Jinhua	小新婦兒
Xiang	Changsha	細媳婦
Xiang	Loudi	細媳婦

(adopted daughter): 養女／养女 (yǎngnǚ)