種珠

Chinese

		to plant; to cultivate; kind to plant; to cultivate; kind; type; race; breed; seed; species (taxonomy)	pearl; bead
trad. (種珠)		種	珠
simp. (种珠)		种	珠

Pronunciation

• Eastern Min (BUC): cé̤ṳng-ciŏ
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zoeng⁴ zou¹ / zyeng⁴ zou¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chèng-chu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zêng³ zu¹

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• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cé̤ṳng-ciŏ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syŋ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ ^(t͡s-)ʒuo⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zoeng⁴ zou¹ [Phonetic: zoeng¹ zou¹]
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ce̤̍ng-co
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sœŋ⁴²⁻⁵⁵ t͡sɔu⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zyeng⁴ zou¹ [Phonetic: zyeng¹ zou¹]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syøŋ⁴²⁻⁵⁵ t͡sɔu⁵³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chèng-chu
    • Tâi-lô: tsìng-tsu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zeangzw
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡siɪŋ²¹⁻⁵³ t͡su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡siɪŋ¹¹⁻⁵³ t͡su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Singapore): /t͡seŋ²¹⁻⁴² t͡su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siɪŋ²¹⁻⁴¹ t͡su⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zêng³ zu¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsèng tsu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡seŋ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ t͡su³³/

Verb

種珠

1. (Eastern Min, Puxian Min, Hokkien, Teochew, immunology) to vaccinate against smallpox

   • 爾能種痘麽 [Teochew, trad.]
     尔能种痘么 [Teochew, simp.]

     From: 1841, William Dean, First Lessons in the Tie-chiw Dialect, “Diseases”

     le² oi⁶ zêng³ zu¹ meh⁴ [Peng'im]

     do you understand inoculation

Synonyms

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• 種牛痘 / 种牛痘 (zhòng niúdòu)
• 種痘 / 种痘 (zhòngdòu)
• 種花 / 种花 (zhònghuā) (dialectal)

Dialectal synonyms of 種痘 (“to vaccinate against smallpox”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		種痘, 種牛痘
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	種痘兒, 種花兒
	Taiwan	種牛痘
	Harbin	種花兒, 種痘兒
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	種痘兒, 種牛痘, 種花兒
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	種花兒, 種痘兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	種痘, 種牛痘
	Xi'an	種牛痘
	Xining	種花兒
	Xuzhou	種花兒, 種牛痘兒
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	種牛痘, 種花
	Lanzhou	種花兒, 點花兒
	Ürümqi	種牛痘
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	種牛痘
	Wuhan	種牛痘
	Guiyang	種牛痘
	Liuzhou	種痘, 種牛痘
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	種天花, 種牛痘
	Yangzhou	種牛痘
Cantonese	Dongguan	種牛痘
Gan	Nanchang	種牛痘
	Lichuan	種果子
	Pingxiang	種牛痘
Hakka	Meixian	種痘
	Yudu	種牛痘
Huizhou	Jixi	種牛痘
Jin	Taiyuan	種花花
	Xinzhou	種痘子
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	種痘, 種珠 suburbs
Southern Min	Xiamen	種珠
	Quanzhou	種汞
	Zhangzhou	種珠
	Tainan	種珠
	Leizhou	種櫓
	Haikou	放花, 種花
Puxian Min	Putian	種珠
	Xianyou	種珠
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	種痘, 種牛痘
Wu	Shanghai (Chongming)	種花
	Suzhou	種牛痘, 種花
	Danyang	種牛痘
	Hangzhou	種牛痘, 種花兒
	Ningbo	種牛痘
	Wenzhou	種寶
	Jinhua	種痘
Xiang	Changsha	點痘子
	Loudi	鋪痘子

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “种珠”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 576.