時辰八字

Chinese

		double-hour	the character 八
trad. (時辰八字)		時辰	八字
simp. (时辰八字)		时辰	八字

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shíchén bāzì

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˊ ㄔㄣˊ ㄅㄚ ㄗˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si⁴ san⁴ baat³ zi⁶
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶zy-zen-paq-zy

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shíchén bāzì
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˊ ㄔㄣˊ ㄅㄚ ㄗˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shíhchén bazìh
    • Wade–Giles: shih²-chʻên² pa¹-tzŭ⁴
    • Yale: shŕ-chén bā-dz̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyrchern batzyh
    • Palladius: шичэнь бацзы (šičɛnʹ baczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰən³⁵ pä⁵⁵ t͡sz̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si⁴ san⁴ baat³ zi⁶
    • Yale: sìh sàhn baat jih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si⁴ san⁴ baat⁸ dzi⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi⁴ sen⁴ bad³ ji⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː²¹ sɐn²¹ paːt̚³ t͡siː²²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶zy-zen-paq-zy
    • MiniDict: zy^去 zen pah zy
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zr-zen-paq-zr
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zz̩²² zən⁵⁵ paʔ³³ zz̩²¹/

Noun

時辰八字

1. eight characters that indicate the year, month, date and double-hour of one's birth, used in fortune-telling
2. (Shanghainese) time
   • 2007, 钱乃荣 [Qian Nairong], 上海话大词典 [Shànghǎihuà dàcídiǎn], 上海辞书出版社, page 15:

     儂要做搿樁事體，時辰八字排排好！ [Shanghainese, trad.]
     侬要做搿桩事体，时辰八字排排好！ [Shanghainese, simp.]

     ⁶non ⁵iau ⁵tsu ⁸geq-tsaon ⁶zy-thi ⁶zy-zen-paq-zy ⁶ba-ba-hau [Wugniu]

     If you want to do this thing, don’t screw the time up!

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 八字 (“eight characters that indicate the year, month, date and double-hour of one's birth”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		八字
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	生辰八字
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	八字
	Xi'an	八字
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	八字
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	八字
	Wuhan	八字
Cantonese	Guangzhou	時辰八字
	Hong Kong	八字, 時辰八字, 生辰八字
	Taishan	八字
Gan	Nanchang	八字
	Pingxiang	八字
Hakka	Yudu	八字
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	八字
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	八字
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	八字
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	八字
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	八字
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	八字
Huizhou	Jixi	八字, 時辰八字
Jin	Taiyuan	八字
Southern Min	Xiamen	八字
	Quanzhou	八字
	Zhangzhou	八字
	Tainan	八字, 生時日月
Wu	Shanghai	時辰八字
	Shanghai (Chongming)	八字
	Suzhou	八字
	Danyang	八字
	Hangzhou	時辰八字
	Wenzhou	八字
	Jinhua	八字
Xiang	Loudi	八字