浪子

Chinese

		wave; breaker; unrestrained wave; breaker; unrestrained; dissipated	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
simp. and trad. (浪子)		浪	子

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): làngzǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄤˋ ㄗˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): long⁶ zi²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): long-chṳ́
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lōng-chú / lōng-chír

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: làngzǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄤˋ ㄗˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: làngzǐh
    • Wade–Giles: lang⁴-tzŭ³
    • Yale: làng-dž
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lanqtzyy
    • Palladius: ланцзы (lanczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑŋ⁵¹ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: long⁶ zi²
    • Yale: lohng jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: long⁶ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: long⁶ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔːŋ²² t͡siː³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: long-chṳ́
    • Hakka Romanization System: long zii^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: long⁴ zi³
    • Sinological IPA: /loŋ⁵⁵ t͡sɨ³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lōng-chú
    • Tâi-lô: lōng-tsú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: loxngzuo
    • IPA (Taipei): /lɔŋ³³⁻¹¹ t͡su⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɔŋ³³⁻²¹ t͡su⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /lɔŋ²²⁻²¹ t͡su⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lōng-chír
    • Tâi-lô: lōng-tsír
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔŋ⁴¹⁻²² t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴/

Noun

浪子

1. loafer; wastrel

Synonyms

• (literary) 流人 (liúrén)
• (Hokkien) 𨑨迌囝, 𨑨迌囡仔

Derived terms

• 擺浪子／摆浪子
• 浪子喪門／浪子丧门
• 浪子回頭／浪子回头
• 浪子回頭金不換／浪子回头金不换 (làngzǐ huítóu jīn bù huàn)
• 游頭浪子／游头浪子

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (浪子):

• → Vietnamese: lãng tử (浪子)

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): nang⁴ zi³

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• Mandarin
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: nang⁴ zi³
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: langz
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /naŋ²¹³ t͡sz̩⁵³/

Noun

浪子

1. (Sichuanese) wave (moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid)

Synonyms

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• 波浪 (bōlàng)
• 波濤／波涛 (bōtāo)
• 波瀾／波澜 (bōlán) (literary)
• 浪濤／浪涛 (làngtāo)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 浪 (“wave”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		瀾, 浪
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		浪
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	浪
	Singapore	浪
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	浪頭
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	浪
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	浪子
Cantonese	Hong Kong	浪
Gan	Nanchang	浪
Huizhou	Jixi	浪頭
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	浪
Southern Min	Xiamen	湧
	Quanzhou	湧
	Zhangzhou	湧
	Tainan	湧
	Jieyang	湧
	Leizhou	湧
	Haikou	湧
Wu	Shanghai	浪頭
	Shanghai (Chongming)	浪頭
	Ningbo	浪頭, 浪

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
浪	子

Noun

浪子

1. chữ Hán form of lãng tử (“(literary) wanderer; vagabond”).