話頭

Chinese

		spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said	head; (noun suffix)
trad. (話頭)		話	頭
simp. (话头)		话	头

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): huàtóu

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄊㄡˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): waa⁶ tau⁴
Eastern Min (BUC): uâ-tàu / uâ-*tàu
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ōe-thâu
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶gho-deu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: huàtóu
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄊㄡˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: huàtóu
  - Wade–Giles: hua⁴-tʻou²
  - Yale: hwà-tóu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huahtour
  - Palladius: хуатоу (xuatou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵¹ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: huàtóur
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄊㄡˊㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: huàtóur
  - Wade–Giles: hua⁴-tʻou²-ʼrh
  - Yale: hwà-tóur
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huahtourl
  - Palladius: хуатоур (xuatour)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵¹ tʰɤʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: waa⁶ tau⁴
  - Yale: wah tàuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waa⁶ tau⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: wa⁶ teo⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː²² tʰɐu̯²¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: uâ-tàu / uâ-*tàu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ua²⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(tʰ-)lau⁵³/, /ua²⁴²⁻⁵⁵ tʰau⁵³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ōe-thâu
  - Tâi-lô: uē-thâu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oextaau
  - IPA (Taipei): /ue³³⁻¹¹ tʰau²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ue³³⁻²¹ tʰau²³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ue⁴¹⁻²² tʰau²⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ue²²⁻²¹ tʰau²⁴/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶gho-deu
  - MiniDict: gho^去 deu
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hho-deu
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦo²² dɤ⁴⁴/

Noun

話頭

starting portion of one's speech
thread of discourse; subject under discussion
subject for others to gossip about, ridicule, etc.
(Xiamen, Quanzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien, Wu) utterance; spoken words; speech; discourse
- 1990, 蔡振南 [Tsai Chen-nan] (lyrics and music), “點一支烟”‎^[1]performed by 宏星特攻隊:
  
  講愛情我心會酸　要講嘛話頭長 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
  讲爱情我心会酸　要讲嘛话头长 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]
  kóng ài-chêng góa sim ē sng, beh kóng mā ōe-thâu tn̂g [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

(utterance): 話語／话语 (huàyǔ)

Derived terms

踏話頭／踏话头

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (話頭):

→ Japanese: 話(わ)頭(とう) (watō)
→ Korean: 화두(話頭) (hwadu)

Korean

Hanja in this term
話	頭

Noun

話頭 • (hwadu) (hangeul 화두)

hanja form^? of 화두 (“topic of discussion; (Zen Buddhism) koan”)