火長

Chinese

		fire; angry; fierce fire; angry; fierce; fiery; thriving	long; length; forever long; length; forever; always; constantly; chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop
trad. (火長)		火	長
simp. (火长)		火	长

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): huê² diên²

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• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: huê² diên²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hué tiéⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hue⁵²⁻³⁵ tĩẽ⁵²⁻²¹/

Noun

火長

1. (Teochew, historical) captain of a steamship

References

• Lim Hiong Seng (1886) “A Dictionary of some of the more important words in the Swatow dialect”, in Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press