月子
Appearance
Chinese
[edit]moon; month | child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight | ||
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simp. and trad. (月子) |
月 | 子 | |
anagram | 子月 |
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄩㄝˋ ˙ㄗ
- Tongyong Pinyin: yuèzi̊h
- Wade–Giles: yüeh4-tzŭ5
- Yale: ywè-dz
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yueh.tzy
- Palladius: юэцзы (jueczy)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɥɛ⁵¹ d͡z̥z̩¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: jyut6 zi2
- Yale: yuht jí
- Cantonese Pinyin: jyt9 dzi2
- Guangdong Romanization: yud6 ji2
- Sinological IPA (key): /jyːt̚² t͡siː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: ye4-5 zeh
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /ye²⁻⁵⁴ t͡səʔ¹/
- (Taiyuan)+
Noun
[edit]月子
- the month following childbirth, during which the mother goes through the traditional Chinese form of postpartum recovery, sometimes referred to in English as confinement or lying-in; puerperium
- time of childbirth
- (dialectal) moon
Synonyms
[edit]Dialectal synonyms of 月子 (“postpartum confinement”) [map]
Variety | Location | Words |
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Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 月子 | |
Northeastern Mandarin | Singapore | 月子 |
Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 月子窠兒, 月子窠兒裡 |
Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 月子 |
Xuzhou | 月窩兒, 月子窩兒, 月地兒, 月子地兒 | |
Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 月子裡 |
Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 月裡 |
Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 月子底下 |
Gan | Nanchang | 月子裡 |
Jin | Taiyuan | 月子 |
Xinzhou | 月子 | |
Northern Min | Jian'ou | 月裡 |
Southern Min | Xiamen | 月內 |
Quanzhou | 月內 | |
Jinjiang | 月內 | |
Zhangzhou | 月內 | |
Tainan | 月內 GT | |
Penang (Hokkien) | 月內 | |
Singapore (Hokkien) | 月內 | |
Manila (Hokkien) | 月內 | |
Leizhou | 月內 | |
Haikou | 月內 | |
Puxian Min | Putian | 月內 |
Xianyou | 月內 | |
Wu | Shanghai | 月子裡, 月裡向, 舍姆裡 |
Danyang | 月子裡 | |
Wenzhou | 月裡 | |
Note | GT - General Taiwanese |
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]- 月嫂 (yuèsǎo)
Japanese
[edit]Kanji in this term | |
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月 | 子 |
つき Grade: 1 |
こ Grade: 1 |
Proper noun
[edit]- a female given name
Categories:
- Chinese lemmas
- Mandarin lemmas
- Cantonese lemmas
- Jin lemmas
- Chinese nouns
- Mandarin nouns
- Cantonese nouns
- Jin nouns
- Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Chinese terms spelled with 月
- Chinese terms spelled with 子
- Chinese dialectal terms
- Japanese terms spelled with 月 read as つき
- Japanese terms spelled with 子 read as こ
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese proper nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 2 kanji
- Japanese given names
- Japanese female given names