筍龜

Chinese

		bamboo shoot	tortoise; turtle
trad. (筍龜)		筍	龜
simp. (笋龟)		笋	龟

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sún-ku

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Taipei, Yilan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sún-ku
    • Tâi-lô: sún-ku
    • Phofsit Daibuun: swnkw
    • IPA (Taipei): /sun⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ku⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Yilan): /sun⁵³⁻⁵⁵ ku⁴⁴/

Noun

筍龜

1. (Taipei and Yilan Hokkien) scarab

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 金龜子 (“scarab”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		金龜子
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	金殼郎, 黃馬褂兒
	Taiwan	金龜子
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	金其亮
Central Plains Mandarin	Xuzhou	金殼螂
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	金殼亮
	Guiyang	金貓貓
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	金各郎
	Yangzhou	金媽媽
Jin	Taiyuan	金巴牛
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	金龜
Southern Min	Xiamen	金龜
	Quanzhou	金龜
	Yongchun	金龜
	Zhangzhou	金龜
	Taipei	金龜, 筍龜
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	金龜, 腫米龜
	Kaohsiung	金龜
	Yilan	金龜, 筍龜
	Changhua (Lukang)	金龜
	Taichung	金龜
	Tainan	金龜, 鐵金龜
	Hsinchu	金龜
	Kinmen	金龜
	Penghu (Magong)	金龜
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	金蟲
Wu	Shanghai	金胡蟲
	Ningbo	金蟲
Xiang	Changsha	鳳鳳