禿子

Chinese

		bald; blunt	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
trad. (禿子)		禿	子
simp. (秃子)		秃	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tūzi

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨ ˙ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tuk¹ zi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tūzi
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tuzi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: tʻu¹-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: tū-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tu.tzy
    • Palladius: туцзы (tuczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu⁵⁵ d͡z̥z̩²/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tuk¹ zi²
    • Yale: tūk jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tuk⁷ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: tug¹ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊk̚⁵ t͡siː³⁵/

Noun

禿子

1. (colloquial, derogatory) baldy; baldhead; baldpate
2. (dialectal, medicine) favus of the scalp

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 禿子 (“bald person”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		禿子, 禿頭
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	禿子
	Taiwan	禿子
	Harbin	禿子, 禿老亮
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	禿子
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	禿子
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	禿子
	Wanrong	禿子
	Xi'an	禿子
	Xining	禿子
	Xuzhou	禿頭, 禿老亮
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	禿子
	Ürümqi	禿頭
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	禿子, 光頭, 光頭兒, 亮蛋
	Wuhan	光頭
	Guiyang	禿子, 逛波
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	禿子
	Yangzhou	禿子
	Hefei	禿子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	光頭佬 man, 光頭婆 woman, 光頭仔 boy, 光頭女 girl, 光頭
	Hong Kong	光頭佬
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin; Weitou)	光頭佬
	Macau	光頭佬
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	光頭
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	光頭
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	光頭
	Foshan	光頭
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	光頭佬
	Foshan (Shunde)	光頭
	Foshan (Sanshui)	光頭
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	光頭
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	光頭
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	光頭佬
	Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka)	光頭佬
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	光頭佬
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	光頭佬
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	光頭佬
	Taishan	光頭佬
	Kaiping (Chikan)	光頭佬
	Enping (Niujiang)	光頭佬
	Heshan (Yayao)	光頭佬
	Dongguan	光頭佬, 光頭
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	光頭
	Yangjiang	光頭佬 man, 光頭婆 woman, 光頭仔 boy, 光頭妹 girl
Gan	Nanchang	禿頭
	Lichuan	光頭
Hakka	Meixian	光頂
	Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua)	光頭
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	光頭那
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	光頭那
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	光頭佬
	Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua)	光頭佬
Jin	Taiyuan	禿子, 禿頭
	Xinzhou	禿子, 禿頭
Northern Min	Jian'ou	瘌頂, 禿頂
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	瘌頂, 瘌頭, 瘌囝, 瘌哥
Southern Min	Xiamen	禿的, 禿頭, 禿顱, 禿頭的
	Quanzhou	禿頭, 禿驢
	Zhangzhou	禿頭
	Kaohsiung	禿額
	Yilan	禿掌
	Changhua (Lukang)	遛頭頂
	Taichung	遛頭
	Taichung (Wuqi)	和尚頭
	Tainan	和尚頭
	Taitung	禿頭
	Hsinchu	禿頭
	Penghu (Magong)	禿額的
	Chaozhou	光頭
	Jieyang	禿掌
	Haikou	光頭顱, 光頭升
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	光頭佬
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	光頭佬
Wu	Shanghai	禿子
	Suzhou	禿頂, 禿子, 電燈泡 humorous
	Danyang	禿頭
	Hangzhou	禿頭
	Wenzhou	禿頭
Xiang	Changsha	禿子, 禿腦殼, 禿頭
	Shuangfeng	光頭殼

• (favus of the scalp): 頭癬／头癣 (tóuxuǎn), 瘌痢 (làlì), 黃癬／黄癣 (huángxuǎn); (dialectal) 禿瘡／秃疮 (tūchuāng), 癩子／癞子 (làizi); (Hokkien) 臭頭／臭头

Derived terms

• 禿子跟著月亮走 / 秃子跟着月亮走