病夫

Chinese

		ailment; illness; disease ailment; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect	husband; man
simp. and trad. (病夫)		病	夫

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bìngfū

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄥˋ ㄈㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): beng⁶ fu¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pēng-hu / pīⁿ-hu / pēⁿ-hu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ben⁷ hu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bìngfū
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄥˋ ㄈㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bìngfu
    • Wade–Giles: ping⁴-fu¹
    • Yale: bìng-fū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: binqfu
    • Palladius: бинфу (binfu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ⁵¹ fu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: beng⁶ fu¹
    • Yale: behng fū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: beng⁶ fu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: béng⁶ fu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛːŋ²² fuː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pēng-hu
    • Tâi-lô: pīng-hu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pexnghw
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piɪŋ⁴¹⁻²² hu³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /piɪŋ²²⁻²¹ hu⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pīⁿ-hu
    • Tâi-lô: pīnn-hu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvixhw
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pĩ⁴¹⁻²² hu³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pĩ²²⁻²¹ hu⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pēⁿ-hu
    • Tâi-lô: pēnn-hu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvexhw
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɛ̃²²⁻²¹ hu⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ben⁷ hu¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pṳ̄ⁿ hu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɯ̃¹¹ hu³³/

Noun

病夫

1. (derogatory) sickly person; invalid (in a sarcastic tone)

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

Derived terms

• 東亞病夫／东亚病夫 (Dōngyà bìngfū)