水牛牯

Chinese

		buffalo; water buffalo; someone who drinks a lot of water	bullock; cow
simp. and trad. (水牛牯)		水牛	牯
anagram		水牯牛

Pronunciation

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): súi-ngiù-kú

  (Hailu, HRS): shui^ˊ ngiu gu^ˊ

  (Meixian, Guangdong): sui³ ngiu² gu³

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• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: súi-ngiù-kú
    • Hakka Romanization System: sui^ˋ ngiu^ˇ gu^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sui³ ngiu² gu³
    • Sinological IPA: /su̯i³¹ ŋi̯u¹¹ ku³¹/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: shui^ˊ ngiu gu^ˊ
    • Sinological IPA: /ʃui²⁴⁻³³ ŋiu⁵⁵ ku²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: sui³ ngiu² gu³
    • Sinological IPA: /suɪ³¹ ŋiu¹¹ ku³¹/

Noun

水牛牯

1. (Hakka) male water buffalo

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 公水牛 (“male water buffalo”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Southwestern Mandarin	Guiyang	水牯
	Liuzhou	水牛牯
Hakka	Meixian	水牛牯
	Xingning	水牛牯
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	水牛牯
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	水牛牯
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	水牛牯
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	水牛牯
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	水牛牯
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	水牛牯
Huizhou	Fuliang	水牯
Wu	Shanghai	水牯牛
	Shanghai (Jiading)	水牯牛
	Wenzhou	水牯
	Jinhua	水牯 uncastrated, 水羯 castrated
Xiang	Changsha	水牯

References

• “Entry #15103”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.