芋仔
Appearance
Chinese
[edit]Colocasia antiquorum | minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility | ||
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trad. (芋仔) | 芋 | 仔 | |
simp. #(芋仔) | 芋 | 仔 |
Pronunciation
[edit]- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: wu6 zai2
- Yale: wuh jái
- Cantonese Pinyin: wu6 dzai2
- Guangdong Romanization: wu6 zei2
- Sinological IPA (key): /wuː²² t͡sɐi̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vu-é
- Hakka Romanization System: vu eˋ
- Hagfa Pinyim: vu4 e3
- Sinological IPA: /vu⁵⁵ e³¹/
- (Meixian)
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Southern Min
Noun
[edit]芋仔
- (Hakka, Southern Min) taro
- (Taiwanese Hokkien, figurative, sometimes ironic or derogatory) waishengren; immigrants who moved to Taiwan from mainland China after the end of World War II
- 老芋仔 [Taiwanese Hokkien] ― lāu-ō͘-á [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― old Chinese Civil War veteran
- (Cantonese) eddo
- (Zhenqian Min) potato
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “芋仔”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
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