瘦蜢蜢

Chinese

		tight; thin; lean
trad. (瘦蜢蜢)		瘦	蜢	蜢
simp. #(瘦蜢蜢)		瘦	蜢	蜢
alternative forms		瘦猛猛

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau³ maang^5-2 maang^5-2 / sau³ maang^5-1 maang^5-1 / sau³ mang^5-1 mang^5-1

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sau³ maang^5-2 maang^5-2 / sau³ maang^5-1 maang^5-1 / sau³ mang^5-1 mang^5-1
    • Yale: sau máang máang / sau māang māang / sau māng māng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau³ maang^5-2 maang^5-2 / sau³ maang^5-1 maang^5-1 / sau³ mang^5-1 mang^5-1
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo³ mang^5-2 mang^5-2 / seo³ mang^5-1 mang^5-1 / seo³ meng^5-1 meng^5-1
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯³³ maːŋ¹³⁻³⁵ maːŋ¹³⁻³⁵/, /sɐu̯³³ maːŋ¹³⁻⁵⁵ maːŋ¹³⁻⁵⁵/, /sɐu̯³³ mɐŋ¹³⁻⁵⁵ mɐŋ¹³⁻⁵⁵/

Adjective

瘦蜢蜢

1. (Cantonese, ideophonic) very skinny; scrawny; being skin and bones
2. (Cantonese, of meat) very lean

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 瘦巴巴 (“(ideophonic) thin; scrawny; skinny”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		瘦巴巴
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	瘦巴巴
	Harbin	瘦了嘎嘰, 瘦精嘎拉兒, 瘦筋嘎拉兒, 瘦筋巴巴
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	瘦氣氣兒
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	瘦瘠麻稈, 瘦麻咕唧
Southwestern Mandarin	Guiyang	瘦精精, 瘦卡卡
	Liuzhou	瘦嘎嘎, 瘦躴躿, 瘦躿躴
Cantonese	Guangzhou	瘦蜢蜢, 瘦擘擘
	Hong Kong	瘦蜢蜢
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	瘦蜢蜢
	Dongguan	瘦蜢蜢, 瘦髀額鶴
Hakka	Meixian	瘦臞臞, 瘦伽伽, 瘦甲甲, 瘦夾夾
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	瘦夾夾仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	瘦夾夾仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	瘦夾夾
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	瘦夾夾
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	瘦夾夾
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	瘦攝攝
	Hong Kong	瘦蜢蜢
	Senai (Huiyang)	瘦掹雞
Huizhou	Jixi	瘦精精
Jin	Xinzhou	瘦皮爬
Northern Min	Jian'ou	𤸬揭骨
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	𤸬揭骨, 𤸬揭鬼
Southern Min	Xiamen	㾪巴巴, 㾪卑巴, 㾪梭梭, 㾪硞硞
	Quanzhou	㾪支支
	Zhangzhou	㾪卑巴, 㾪硞硞
	Tainan	㾪卑巴, 㾪硞硞
	Singapore (Hokkien)	㾪巴巴
	Manila (Hokkien)	㾪卑巴
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	㾪卑巴
Wu	Shanghai	瘦刮刮, 瘦節節, 瘦㾹㾹
	Shanghai (Chongming)	瘦瘠伶伶
	Danyang	瘦巴巴, 瘦巴郎, 瘦刮刮
	Ningbo	瘦怯怯, 瘦刮刮
	Wenzhou	㾹筋筋

Antonyms

• 肥嘟嘟, 肥揗揗