棉花糖

Chinese

		cotton	sugar; sweets; candy
trad. (棉花糖)		棉花	糖
simp. #(棉花糖)		棉花	糖

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miánhuātáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄚ ㄊㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): min⁴ faa¹ tong^4-2

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: miánhuātáng → miánhuatáng (toneless variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄚ ㄊㄤˊ → ㄇㄧㄢˊ ˙ㄏㄨㄚ ㄊㄤˊ (toneless variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: miánhuåtáng
    • Wade–Giles: mien²-hua⁵-tʻang²
    • Yale: myán-hwa-táng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mian.huatarng
    • Palladius: мяньхуатан (mjanʹxuatan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛn³⁵ xu̯ä⁵⁵ tʰɑŋ³⁵/ → /mi̯ɛn³⁵ xu̯ä³ tʰɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: min⁴ faa¹ tong^4-2
    • Yale: mìhn fā tóng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: min⁴ faa¹ tong^4-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: min⁴ fa¹ tong^4-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miːn²¹ faː⁵⁵ tʰɔːŋ²¹⁻³⁵/

Noun

棉花糖

1. cotton candy; candyfloss; fairy floss
2. marshmallow (Classifier: 粒 c)

Synonyms

• (cotton candy):

Dialectal synonyms of 棉花糖 (“cotton candy; candy floss; fairy floss”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		棉花糖
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	棉花糖
Cantonese	Hong Kong	棉花糖
	Dongguan	棉花糖
Gan	Lichuan	棉花糖
Southern Min	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	棉仔糖
	Kinmen	棉絲糖
Wu	Suzhou	棉花糖
	Hangzhou	棉花糖