牛軛

Chinese

		ox; cow; bull	restrain; yoke
trad. (牛軛)		牛	軛
simp. (牛轭)		牛	轭

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): niú'è

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧㄡˊ ㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngau⁴ aak¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): ngiù-ak

  (Hailu, HRS): ngiu ag

  (Meixian, Guangdong): ngiu² ag⁵

• Northern Min (KCR): niû-ă̤
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gu² eh⁶
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): nyiou² nga¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: niú'è
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄡˊ ㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nióu-è
    • Wade–Giles: niu²-o⁴
    • Yale: nyóu-è
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nioueh
    • Palladius: нюэ (njue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni̯oʊ̯³⁵ ˀɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngau⁴ aak¹
    • Yale: ngàuh āak
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngau⁴ aak⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngeo⁴ ag¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɐu̯²¹ aːk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngiù-ak
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngiu^ˇ ag^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngiu² ag⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋi̯u¹¹ ak̚²/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngiu ag
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋiu⁵⁵ ak⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: ngiu² ag⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋiu¹¹ ak̚¹/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: niû-ă̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /niu³³ ɛ²⁴/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gu² eh⁶ [Phonetic: gu⁴ eh⁶]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku¹³⁻⁴² ɛʔ¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gu² eh⁶ [Phonetic: gu⁴ eh⁶]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku¹³⁻⁴² ɛʔ²/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: nyiou² nga¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /n̠ʲi̯əu̯¹³ ŋa̠³³/

Noun

牛軛

1. yoke; oxbow

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 牛軛 (“yoke; oxbow”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		牛軛, 牛鞅
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	牛樣子
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	牛彀索, 牛軛
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	牛折子
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	牛夠腦
	Xi'an	牛槅頭
	Xining	牛槅子, 牛槅頭
	Xuzhou	牛索頭
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	牛槅頭
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	牛軛頭
	Guiyang	枷擔, 牛丫
	Liuzhou	牛軛
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	軛頭
	Yangzhou	牛軛頭
Cantonese	Dongguan	牛軛, 牛逛
Gan	Lichuan	藤軛
	Pingxiang	頸軛
Hakka	Meixian	牛軛
	Yudu	牛軛
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	牛軛
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	牛軛
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	牛軛
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	牛軛
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	牛軛
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	牛軛
Huizhou	Jixi	牛軛
Jin	Taiyuan	牛角子
	Xinzhou	牛構角, 構角
Northern Min	Jian'ou	牛軛
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	脰軛
Southern Min	Xiamen	牛擔, 牛椵, 牛枷車, 枷擔
	Quanzhou	牛擔, 牛椵, 牛枷車, 牛扁擔, 牛蹺擔
	Zhangzhou	牛擔, 枷擔, 蹺擔
	Leizhou	牛軛
	Haikou	牛軛
Puxian Min	Putian	牛犁擔, 牛擔
	Xianyou	牛犁擔, 牛軛
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	牛軛
Wu	Shanghai (Songjiang)	押頭
	Suzhou	牛拗頭, 牛扁擔
	Danyang	犁軛頭
	Ningbo	牛軛
	Wenzhou	牛軛
	Jinhua	牛軛
Xiang	Changsha	牛軛, 牛枷

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), “牛轭”, 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 239.