烏墨

Chinese

		a crow; black; not a crow; black; not; empty; void	China ink; ink stick; (abbrev.)
trad. (烏墨)		烏	墨
simp. (乌墨)		乌	墨
anagram		墨烏／墨乌

Pronunciation

• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ou¹ bah⁷
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): o͘-ba̍k

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• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ou¹ bah⁷ [Phonetic: ou⁵ ah⁷]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔu⁵³³⁻²¹ ^(p-)aʔ⁴/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ou¹ bah⁷ [Phonetic: ou⁵ bhah⁷]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔu⁵³³⁻²¹ ^(p-)βaʔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Jinjiang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘-ba̍k
    • Tâi-lô: oo-ba̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: o'bak
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /ɔ³³ bak̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ɔ⁴⁴⁻³³ bak̚⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɔ⁴⁴⁻²² bak̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɔ⁴⁴⁻²² bak̚¹²¹/

Noun

烏墨

1. (Hokkien, Puxian Min) prepared Chinese ink (as used in Chinese calligraphy and painting)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 墨汁 (“prepared India ink”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		墨汁
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	墨汁
	Harbin	墨汁
	Singapore	墨汁
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	墨汁兒
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	墨汁子
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	墨汁兒
	Wanrong	墨汁
	Xi'an	墨汁
	Xining	墨汁, 墨汁兒
	Xuzhou	墨汁
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	墨汁
	Ürümqi	墨汁
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	墨汁
	Wuhan	墨汁
	Guiyang	墨汁
	Liuzhou	墨汁
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	墨汁
Cantonese	Dongguan	墨汁
Gan	Nanchang	墨汁
	Lichuan	墨汁
	Pingxiang	墨汁 ready-made, 墨 rubbed from ink stick
Hakka	Meixian	墨汁
	Yudu	墨汁
Huizhou	Jixi	墨汁
Jin	Taiyuan	墨汁
	Lüliang (Lishi)	墨汁
Northern Min	Jian'ou	墨汁
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	墨汁
Southern Min	Xiamen	墨膏, 墨烏
	Quanzhou	墨膏
	Jinjiang	墨水, 烏墨
	Zhangzhou	墨膏, 墨烏
	Manila (Hokkien)	烏墨, 墨汁, 墨膏
Puxian Min	Putian	墨膏, 烏墨
	Xianyou	墨膏, 烏墨
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	墨汁, 墨水
Wu	Shanghai (Chongming)	墨汁
	Suzhou	墨汁
	Danyang	墨汁
	Hangzhou	墨汁
	Ningbo	墨汁
	Wenzhou	墨汁
	Jinhua	墨汁
Xiang	Changsha	墨汁
	Loudi	墨汁, 墨水

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “乌墨”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 428.