翻草

Chinese

		flit about; translate; turn over	grass; straw; draft (of a document) grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty
trad. (翻草)		翻	草
simp. #(翻草)		翻	草

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faan¹ cou²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hoan-chháu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): huang¹ cao²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faan¹ cou²
    • Yale: fāan chóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faan¹ tsou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: fan¹ cou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn⁵⁵ t͡sʰou̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoan-chháu
    • Tâi-lô: huan-tsháu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoanzhao
    • IPA (Taipei): /huan⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰau⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰau⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /huan⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰau⁵³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: huang¹ cao²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: huang tsháu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ³³⁻²³ t͡sʰau⁵²/

Verb

翻草

1. (Cantonese, Southern Min, Zhao'an Hakka) to ruminate; to chew the cud

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 反芻 (“to ruminate; to chew the cud”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		反芻, 倒嚼, 倒噍
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	反芻, 倒嚼
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	倒噍
	Xi'an	倒磨
	Xining	倒磨
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	倒磨
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	回嚼
	Liuzhou	反草
Cantonese	Guangzhou	翻草
Hakka	Meixian	倒胲
	Huidong (Daling)	倒草
	Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang)	翻肚
	Changting	倒草
	Wuping	倒草
	Wuping (Pingyu)	倒草
	Liancheng	倒草
	Ruijin	倒草
	Shicheng	倒草
	Shangyou (Shexi)	倒草
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	倒草
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	倒草
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	倒草
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	倒草
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	倒草
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	翻草
Huizhou	Jixi	倒草
Jin	Xinzhou	倒嚼
Southern Min	Xiamen	翻草, 倒噍
	Zhangzhou	倒噍
	Tainan	翻草
Wu	Jinhua	轉嚼

References

• Duffus, William (1883) “ruminate”, in English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Swatow, Swatow: English Presbyterian Mission Press, page 231
• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “翻草”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC