病仙

Chinese

		ailment; illness; disease ailment; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect	immortal
simp. and trad. (病仙)		病	仙

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pīⁿ-sian / pēⁿ-sian

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pīⁿ-sian
    • Tâi-lô: pīnn-sian
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvixsiefn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pĩ²²⁻²¹ siɛn⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pĩ⁴¹⁻²² siɛn³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pĩ³³⁻¹¹ siɛn⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Tainan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pēⁿ-sian
    • Tâi-lô: pēnn-sian
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvexsiefn
    • IPA (Tainan): /pẽ³³⁻¹¹ siɛn⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɛ̃²²⁻²¹ siɛn⁴⁴/

Noun

病仙

1. (Southern Min) sickly person; someone who gets sick frequently

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 病夫 (“sickly person; invalid”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		病夫
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	病包兒, 病簍子, 病秧子
	Taiwan	病夫
	Harbin	病包, 病包子, 病簍子, 病秧子
Central Plains Mandarin	Xining	病漢, 病團團
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	病殼殼, 病坨坨
	Guiyang	病殼殼
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	病秧子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	病君, 病貓, 病壞
	Hong Kong	病貓, 病壞, 病君
Gan	Lichuan	病鬼
Hakka	Meixian	病鬼
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	病丁仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	病丁, 病丁仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	病丁, 病丁仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	病丁
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	病丁仔
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping)	病丁
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	病丁
Northern Min	Jian'ou	病公
Southern Min	Xiamen	病仙, 病丁
	Quanzhou	病仙
	Zhangzhou	病仙, 病丁
	Tainan	病仙, 病鬼
	Shantou	病夫, 病鬼
	Haifeng	病鬼
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	病貓
Xiang	Changsha	病殼子
	Loudi	病殼子