膝頭蓋

Chinese

		knee	head; (noun suffix)	cover; lid; top cover; lid; top; canopy; to build
trad. (膝頭蓋)		膝	頭	蓋
simp. (膝头盖)		膝	头	盖

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sat¹ tau⁴ goi³

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sat¹ tau⁴ goi³
    • Yale: sāt tàuh goi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sat⁷ tau⁴ goi³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sed¹ teo⁴ goi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐt̚⁵ tʰɐu̯²¹ kɔːi̯³³/

Noun

膝頭蓋

1. (Cantonese, Yudu Hakka, Pinghua, anatomy) kneecap; patella

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 膝蓋骨 (“patella; kneecap”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		膝蓋骨, 髕骨
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	克膝蓋
Cantonese	Guangzhou	波羅蓋, 膝頭蓋
	Hong Kong	波羅蓋, 膝頭蓋
Hakka	Meixian	膝頭骨
	Yudu	膝頭蓋
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	跤鏡
Southern Min	Xiamen	燈火碗, 跤頭趺骨
	Quanzhou	跤頭趺骨
	Zhangzhou	燈火碗, 跤頭腕
	Singapore (Hokkien)	跤頭趺骨
	Haikou	跤趺骨, 跤趺臍骨
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	膝頭蓋, 膝頭尖, 膝頭
Wu	Jinhua	腳寶蓋
Xiang	Changsha	膝頭骨, 髂膝骨