矮細

Chinese

		short (not tall)	fine; minutely; thin fine; minutely; thin; slender
trad. (矮細)		矮	細
simp. (矮细)		矮	细

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ai² sai³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ái-se
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): óe-sòe / é-sè

  (Teochew, Peng'im): oi² soi³

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ai² sai³
    • Yale: ái sai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ai² sai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ei² sei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɐi̯³⁵ sɐi̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ái-se
    • Hakka Romanization System: ai^ˋ se
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ai³ se⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /ai̯³¹ se⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: óe-sòe
    • Tâi-lô: ué-suè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oefsoex
    • IPA (Taipei): /ue⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sue¹¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ue⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sue²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ue⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ sue⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: é-sè
    • Tâi-lô: é-sè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: efsex
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /e⁵³⁻⁴⁴ se²¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /e⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ se²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: oi² soi³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ói sòi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /oi⁵²⁻³⁵ soi²¹³/

Adjective

矮細

1. (Cantonese, Hakka, Southern Min) short and small; undersized
   • 1951, 《孔明献空城歌》下本, Hsinchu: 竹林書局:

     鄧芝人生恰矮細　原穿白甲戴銀盔 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     邓芝人生恰矮细　原穿白甲戴银盔 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     Tēng Chi lâng siⁿ khah óe-sòe, goân chhēng pe̍h kah tì gûn khoe [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 矮小 (“(of stature) short and small”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		矮小
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	矮小
Cantonese	Hong Kong	矮細
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	矮細
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	矮細
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	矮細
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	矮細
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	矮細
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	矮細
Southern Min	Xiamen	矮細, 矮股, 細箍把, 細粒子
	Quanzhou	矮細, 矮股觸, 細箍把, 細粒子
	Zhangzhou	矮細, 矮股, 細粒子
	Tainan	矮股, 細粒子
	Jieyang	矮細