花矸

Chinese

		flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern	a rock or cliff
trad. (花矸)		花	矸
simp. #(花矸)		花	矸

Pronunciation

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hoe-kan / hoa-kan

  (Teochew, Peng'im): huê¹ gang¹

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoe-kan
    • Tâi-lô: hue-kan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoe'kafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hue⁴⁴⁻²² kan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hue⁴⁴⁻³³ kan⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Penang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoa-kan
    • Tâi-lô: hua-kan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoa'kafn
    • IPA (Penang): /hua³³⁻²¹ kan³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: huê¹ gang¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hue kang
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hue³³⁻²³ kaŋ³³/

Noun

花矸

1. (Hokkien, Teochew, Wuluo Hakka) (flower) vase

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 花瓶 (“vase”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		花瓶, 插瓶
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	花瓶兒
	Taiwan	花瓶
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	花瓶
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	花瓶
	Xi'an	花瓶兒
Southwestern Mandarin	Guilin	花瓶
Cantonese	Guangzhou	花樽
	Hong Kong	花樽
	Taishan	花樽
Gan	Nanchang	花瓶
	Pingxiang	花瓶
Hakka	Meixian	花瓶, 花樽
	Xingning	花樽
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	花罌仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	花矸仔, 花罌, 花罌仔
	Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian)	花矸
	Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian)	花矸仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	花罌, 花罌仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	花罌
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	花罌, 花罌仔
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	花罌
Huizhou	Jixi	花瓶
Southern Min	Xiamen	花瓶, 花矸
	Quanzhou	花瓶
	Zhangzhou	花瓶, 櫝瓶
	Zhao'an	花矸
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	花矸, 花瓶
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	花矸
	Kaohsiung	花矸, 花瓶
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	花矸, 花瓶
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	花矸
	Yilan (Toucheng)	花瓶
	Tainan	花矸
	Tainan (Anping)	花矸, 花瓶
	Penghu (Xiyu)	花矸, 花瓶
	Penang (Hokkien)	花矸
	Shantou	花瓶, 花樽
	Jieyang	井缸
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	花瓶, 花樽
Wu	Shanghai	花瓶
	Suzhou	花瓶
	Hangzhou	花瓶
	Jinhua	花瓶

References

• Duffus, William (1883) “vase”, in English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Swatow, Swatow: English Presbyterian Mission Press, page 287