米花

Chinese

		rice; metre	flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern
trad. (米花)		米	花
simp. ^#(米花)		米	花

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mǐhuā
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˇ ㄏㄨㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mǐhua
  - Wade–Giles: mi³-hua¹
  - Yale: mǐ-hwā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miihua
  - Palladius: михуа (mixua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: mai⁵ faa¹
  - Yale: máih fā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mai⁵ faa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: mei⁵ fa¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐi̯¹³ faː⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: bi³ hua¹ [Phonetic: bi⁵ ua¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi³³²⁻²¹ ^(h-)ua⁵³³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶mi-ho
  - MiniDict: mi^去 ho
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³mi-ho
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /mi²² ho⁴⁴/

米花

Dialectal synonyms of 爆米花 (“puffed rice”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		爆米花, 米花
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	米花兒
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	爆米花
Cantonese	Guangzhou	爆穀, 米通
Cantonese	Hong Kong	米通
Hakka	Meixian	米𥺆仔
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	米𥺆, 米冇仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	米𥺆
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	米𥺆
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	米冇
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	米𥺆
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	米𥺆, 磅米香
Jin	Taiyuan	崩米花兒, 爆米花兒
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	炒米花, 炒米
Southern Min	Xiamen	米芳
	Quanzhou	米芳
	Zhangzhou	米芳
	Tainan	米芳
	Singapore (Hokkien)	米芳
Puxian Min	Putian	炒米花
Puxian Min	Xianyou	炒米花, 米花
Wu	Shanghai	炒米花
	Danyang	炒米
	Hangzhou	炒米胮, 冬米胮
	Ningbo	冬米胖, 冬米大胖, 冬米大王, 米胖
	Wenzhou	炒米花

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), “米花”, 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 38.