碌仔

Chinese

		laborious; small stone; to record laborious; small stone; to record; to tape; to write down; to hire; to employ	minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility
trad. (碌仔)		碌	仔
simp. #(碌仔)		碌	仔

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lo̍k-á

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lo̍k-á
    • Tâi-lô: lo̍k-á
    • Phofsit Daibuun: log'ar
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔk̚²⁴⁻² a⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lɔk̚⁴⁻³² a⁵³/

Noun

碌仔

1. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien, originally) poor and lowly person ordered about by others
2. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien, by extension) ordinary employee of someone else