花會

Chinese

		flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern	to meet; to gather; group to meet; to gather; group; to assemble; association; be able to; be likely to; to balance an account; accounting
trad. (花會)		花	會
simp. (花会)		花	会

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huāhuì

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚ ㄏㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faa¹ wui^6-2
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hoe-hē / hoa-hōe / hoe-hōe

  (Teochew, Peng'im): huê¹ huê⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huāhuì
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚ ㄏㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huahuèi
    • Wade–Giles: hua¹-hui⁴
    • Yale: hwā-hwèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huahuey
    • Palladius: хуахуэй (xuaxuej)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵⁵ xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faa¹ wui^6-2
    • Yale: fā wúi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faa¹ wui^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: fa¹ wui^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faː⁵⁵ wuːi̯²²⁻³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoe-hē
    • Tâi-lô: hue-hē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoe'he
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hue⁴⁴⁻³³ he³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hue⁴⁴⁻²² he²²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoa-hōe
    • Tâi-lô: hua-huē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoa'hoe
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hua⁴⁴⁻²² hue²²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou-like accent in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoe-hōe
    • Tâi-lô: hue-huē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoe'hoe
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: huê¹ huê⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hue huĕ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hue³³⁻²³ hue³⁵/

Noun

花會

1. flower fair (a traditional activity popular in Hebei province, often held during the Chinese New Year and Lantern Festival, featuring numerous varieties of folk song, dance, Chinese opera, stiltwalking, fan drums, lion dance, and "dry boats")
2. (Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien and Mandarin, gambling, historical) an illegal gambling numbers game, from Early Ming dynasty till it was banned in 1949, historically popular in Fujian, Guangdong, Shanghai, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Tianjin, Beijing, and further across Mainland China, Taiwan and abroad

   Synonym: 花當 / 花当 (Quanzhou)

   • 1959, 李永明, 潮州方言, Beijing: 中華書局, page 280:

     花會拍得着/縐紗蝱帳/留隍草蓆/花會拍唔着/上有文章樓/下有蛤蟆石 [Teochew, trad.]
     花会拍得着/绉纱虻帐/留隍草席/花会拍唔着/上有文章楼/下有蛤蟆石 [Teochew, simp.]

     huê¹ huê⁶ pah⁸ dig⁸ diêh⁸ / ziou³ siê¹ mâng¹ diên³ / liu⁵ ng⁵ cao² ciêh⁸ / huê¹ huê⁶ pah⁴ m⁶ diêh⁸ / ziên⁶ u⁶ bhung⁵ ziang¹ lao⁵ / e⁶ u⁶ gab⁸ bo² ziêh⁸ [Peng'im]

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   1. (gambling, historical) a gambling game using an octangular teetotum with 5 to 8 characters
   2. (gambling, historical) a gambling game played by shaking dice without a teetotum with up to 37 characters

Compounds

• 搖花會 / 摇花会
• 撚花會 / 撚花会
• 硩花會 / 硩花会
• 花會場 / 花会场
• 花會枋 / 花会枋
• 花會骰 / 花会骰

Descendants

• → Betawi: hwa-hwé
• → Tagalog: wahoy, wahuy
• → Tausug: wahuy

See also

• 撚寶／撚宝

Further reading

• “清末明初的另類彩票——打花會”, in 每日頭條‎^[1], 2018 January 8
• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “花會”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[2] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
• 東方孝義 (TŌHŌ Takayoshi) (1931) “花會”, in 臺日新辭書 [New Taiwanese–Japanese dictionary] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: 臺灣警察協會, page 855
• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “hoe-hē”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, With the Principal Variations of the Chang-chew and Chin-chew Dialects. (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 124; New Edition, With Corrections by the Author., Thomas Barclay, Lîm Iàn-sîn 林燕臣, London: Publishing Office of the Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 124