爆穀

See also: 爆谷

Chinese

		to crack; to explode or burst	grain; corn
trad. (爆穀/爆谷)		爆	穀/谷
simp. (爆谷)		爆	谷

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bàogǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄠˋ ㄍㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): paau³ guk¹ / baau³ guk¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bàogǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄠˋ ㄍㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bàogǔ
    • Wade–Giles: pao⁴-ku³
    • Yale: bàu-gǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bawguu
    • Palladius: баогу (baogu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑʊ̯⁵¹ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: paau³ guk¹ / baau³ guk¹
    • Yale: paau gūk / baau gūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: paau³ guk⁷ / baau³ guk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: pao³ gug¹ / bao³ gug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaːu̯³³ kʊk̚⁵/, /paːu̯³³ kʊk̚⁵/
    • Homophones:

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Noun

爆穀

1. (chiefly Cantonese) popcorn (a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating)
2. (chiefly Cantonese) puffed rice

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 玉米花 (“popcorn”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		爆米花, 玉米花
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	爆米花
	Harbin	包米花兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Xuzhou	炸米花兒, 炸花兒, 爆米花兒
Cantonese	Hong Kong	爆穀
Jin	Taiyuan	崩米花兒, 爆米花兒
Southern Min	Taipei	磅米芳 GT, 磅番麥 GT
Wu	Shanghai	哈力克
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no particular region identified)

Dialectal synonyms of 爆米花 (“puffed rice”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		爆米花, 米花
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	米花兒
	Taiwan	爆米花
Cantonese	Guangzhou	爆穀, 米通
	Hong Kong	米通
Hakka	Meixian	米𥺆仔
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	米𥺆, 米冇仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	米𥺆
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	米𥺆
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	米冇
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	米𥺆
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	米𥺆, 磅米香
Jin	Taiyuan	崩米花兒, 爆米花兒
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	炒米花, 炒米
Southern Min	Xiamen	米芳
	Quanzhou	米芳
	Zhangzhou	米芳
	Tainan	米芳
	Singapore (Hokkien)	米芳
Puxian Min	Putian	炒米花
	Xianyou	炒米花, 米花
Wu	Shanghai	炒米花
	Danyang	炒米
	Hangzhou	炒米胮, 冬米胮
	Ningbo	冬米胖, 冬米大胖, 冬米大王, 米胖
	Wenzhou	炒米花