毛瓜

Chinese

		hair; fur; one tenth of a yuan or dollar	melon; claw; gourd melon; claw; gourd; squash
trad. (毛瓜)		毛	瓜
simp. #(毛瓜)		毛	瓜

Etymology

Named for its fuzziness.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): máoguā

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˊ ㄍㄨㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴ gwaa¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: máoguā
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˊ ㄍㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: máogua
    • Wade–Giles: mao²-kua¹
    • Yale: máu-gwā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maugua
    • Palladius: маогуа (maogua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑʊ̯³⁵ ku̯ä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁴ gwaa¹
    • Yale: mòuh gwā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴ gwaa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴ gua¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹ kʷaː⁵⁵/

Noun

毛瓜

1. hairy gourd; fuzzy melon (Benincasa hispida var. chieh-qua)
   • 1955 March 25, “新出毛瓜上市　青瓜陸續運來”, in 大公報, page 5:

     新出毛瓜已有運到，但數量並不多，昨天只有二、三百斤上市。 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     新出毛瓜已有运到，但数量并不多，昨天只有二、三百斤上市。 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     san¹ ceot¹ mou⁴ gwaa¹ ji⁵ jau⁵ wan⁶ dou³, daan⁶ sou³ loeng⁶ bing⁶ bat¹ do¹, zok⁶ tin¹ zi² jau⁵ ji⁶, saam¹ baak³ gan¹ soeng⁵ si⁵. [Jyutping]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 節瓜 (“hairy gourd”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		節瓜
Southwestern Mandarin	Liuzhou	節瓜
Cantonese	Guangzhou	節瓜, 毛瓜
	Hong Kong	節瓜
	Taishan	節瓜
	Kaiping (Chikan)	節瓜
	Dongguan	節瓜, 毛瓜
	Yangjiang	節瓜
	Nanning	節瓜
	Wuzhou	節瓜
Hakka	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	節瓜
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	節瓜

See also

• 冬瓜 (dōngguā)
• 夏南瓜 (xiànánguā)