蒜苗

Chinese

		garlic	sprout; seedling; descendant sprout; seedling; descendant; symptom of a trend; young; vaccine; Miao tribe
trad. (蒜苗)		蒜	苗
simp. #(蒜苗)		蒜	苗

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): suànmiáo

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄢˋ ㄇㄧㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syun³ miu⁴
• Eastern Min (BUC): sáung-mièu
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵soe-miau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: suànmiáo
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄢˋ ㄇㄧㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: suànmiáo
    • Wade–Giles: suan⁴-miao²
    • Yale: swàn-myáu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suannmiau
    • Palladius: суаньмяо (suanʹmjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯än⁵¹ mi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: suànmiáor
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄢˋ ㄇㄧㄠˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: suànmiáor
    • Wade–Giles: suan⁴-miao²-ʼrh
    • Yale: swàn-myáur
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suannmiaul
    • Palladius: суаньмяор (suanʹmjaor)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯än⁵¹ mi̯aʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: syun³ miu⁴
    • Yale: syun mìuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: syn³ miu⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xun³ miu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syːn³³ miːu̯²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sáung-mièu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /souŋ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ mieu⁵³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵soe-miau
    • MiniDict: soe^去 miau
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²soe-miau
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /sø³³ miɔ⁴⁴/

Noun

蒜苗

1. tender rachis of the garlic

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 蒜苗 (“garlic shoot”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		蒜苗
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	蒜苗
	Singapore	蒜苗
Southern Min	Taipei	蒜仔 GT
	Singapore (Hokkien)	蒜仔
Wu	Shanghai	蒜苗
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Derived terms

• 洋蒜苗 (yángsuànmiáo)