賭痞

Chinese

		bet; gamble	scoundrel; swelling of the liver
trad. (賭痞)		賭	痞
simp. (赌痞)		赌	痞

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǔpǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨˇ ㄆㄧˇ

• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): dou³ pi³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǔpǐ [Phonetic: dúpǐ]
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˇ ㄆㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǔpǐ
    • Wade–Giles: tu³-pʻi³
    • Yale: dǔ-pǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duupii
    • Palladius: дупи (dupi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ pʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: dou³ pi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /təu̯⁴¹ pʰi⁴¹/

Noun

賭痞

1. ruffian who gambles for a living; gambler

   • 從前的「賭痞」，現在自己在那裡禁賭了，農會勢盛地方，和牌一樣弊絕風清。 [MSC, trad.]
     从前的「赌痞」，现在自己在那里禁赌了，农会势盛地方，和牌一样弊绝风清。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Cóngqián de “dǔpǐ”, xiànzài zìjǐ zài nàlǐ jìndǔ le, nónghuì shìshèng dìfang, hé pái yīyàng bìjuéfēngqīng. [Pinyin]

     Former hardened gamblers are now themselves suppressing gambling; this abuse, too, has been swept away in places where the peasant association is powerful.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 賭徒 (“gambler”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		賭徒, 賭鬼, 賭棍
Northeastern Mandarin	Singapore	賭鬼
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	賭客, 賭棍兒, 賭棍
	Wuhan	賭博佬
	Liuzhou	賭崽
Cantonese	Guangzhou	賭仔, 爛賭鬼, 爛賭二
	Hong Kong	賭徒, 賭鬼, 賭仔, 爛賭鬼, 爛賭二
	Taishan	賭徒
Gan	Nanchang	賭鬼
Hakka	Meixian	賭腳
	Yudu	賭腳
Northern Min	Jian'ou	賭博鬼
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	賭錢鬼, 賭棍
Southern Min	Xiamen	繳仙, 繳棍, 繳鬼
	Quanzhou	繳仙, 繳棍, 繳鬼
	Jinjiang	繳鬼, 跋繳仙
	Zhangzhou	繳仙, 繳棍, 繳鬼
	Tainan	筊仙, 筊鬼
	Penang (Hokkien)	繳鬼
	Manila (Hokkien)	跋繳仙
	Shantou	賭徒, 跋錢儂
	Jieyang	跋錢蟲
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	賭鬼, 賭佬, 爛賭鬼
Wu	Suzhou	賭鬼
	Hangzhou	賭客
	Ningbo	賭坯, 賭客
Xiang	Changsha	賭痞