毛尾仔

Chinese

		hair; fur; one tenth of a yuan or dollar	tip; extremity; youngest son
simp. and trad. (毛尾仔)		毛	尾仔

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): mn̂g-bóe-á / mn̂g-bé-á

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mn̂g-bóe-á
    • Tâi-lô: mn̂g-bué-á
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mngboefar
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /mŋ̍²³⁻³³ bue⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ a⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mn̂g-bé-á
    • Tâi-lô: mn̂g-bé-á
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mngbefar
    • IPA (Taipei): /mŋ̍²⁴⁻¹¹ be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ a⁵³/

Noun

毛尾仔

1. (Taiwanese Hokkien) pigtail; plaits; ponytail; braids
2. (Taiwanese Hokkien) ends of one's hair

Synonyms

• (pigtail):

Dialectal synonyms of 辮子 (“queue; plaits; pigtail”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		辮子
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	辮子
	Harbin	辮子
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	辮子
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	辮子
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	辮子
	Wanrong	辮子, 頭辮子
	Xi'an	帽蓋子, 辮子
	Xining	辮子, 辮辮
	Xuzhou	辮子
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	辮子
	Ürümqi	辮子
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	辮子
	Guiyang	辮子
	Liuzhou	辮子
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	辮子
	Yangzhou	辮子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	辮
	Hong Kong	辮
Gan	Nanchang	辮子
	Lichuan	辮子
	Pingxiang	辮子
Hakka	Meixian	毛辮仔
	Yudu	辮子
Jin	Taiyuan	辮子
	Xinzhou	辮子
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	辮辮
Southern Min	Xiamen	頭鬃尾, 髻仔
	Quanzhou	髻尾, 髻仔尾, 髻仔
	Yongchun	髻囝尾
	Zhangzhou	頭鬃尾, 頭鬃尾仔, 頭鬃仔尾
	Zhao'an	鬃仔
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	頭鬃尾仔, 頭鬃尾
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	毛尾仔
	Changhua (Yongjing)	囟鬃仔
	Tainan (Anping)	毛尾仔
	Pingtung (Baoli, Checheng)	頭毛尾仔
	Penghu (Xiyu)	鬃尾仔
	Shantou	辮
	Jieyang	辮
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	辮子
Wu	Shanghai	辮子
	Shanghai (Chongming)	辮子
	Suzhou	辮子
	Danyang	辮子
	Hangzhou	辮兒
	Ningbo	辮子
	Wenzhou	辮兒
	Jinhua	辮兒
Xiang	Changsha	辮韃子
	Loudi	辮子

• (ponytail):

Dialectal synonyms of 馬尾辮 (“ponytail (hairstyle)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		馬尾辮
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	馬尾
Cantonese	Hong Kong	馬尾
	Dongguan	馬尾
Southern Min	Tainan	頭鬃尾, 毛尾仔
	Penang (Hokkien)	馬尾

• (ends of one's hair): (Hokkien) 毛跤