走鬼

Chinese

FWOTD – 2 May 2017

		to walk; to go; to move to walk; to go; to move; to leave	ghost; sly; crafty
trad. (走鬼)		走	鬼
simp. #(走鬼)		走	鬼

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zau² gwai²
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): zao² gui²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zau² gwai²
    • Yale: jáu gwái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau² gwai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeo² guei²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯³⁵ kʷɐi̯³⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 走鬼 酒鬼

• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zao² gui²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsáu kúi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sau⁵²⁻³⁵ kui⁵²⁻²¹/

Verb

走鬼

1. (Cantonese, of an illegal hawker) to flee when hawker control teams are imminent

   • 走鬼呀，快啲走喇，個魁斗冇人情講㗎！ [Cantonese, trad.]
     走鬼呀，快啲走喇，个魁斗冇人情讲㗎！ [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2016, So Man Hing (蘇萬興), 《講開有段古：老餅潮語III》, Chung Hwa Book Company (Hong Kong) Limited

     zau² gwai² aa³, faai³ di¹ zau² laa³, go³ fui¹ dau² mou⁵ jan⁴ cing⁴ gong² gaa³! [Jyutping]

     Run! Run quickly! Those gweilo won't be so kind!

Noun

走鬼

1. (Teochew, historical) servant girl
2. (Teochew, historical) concubine

References

• Lim Hiong Seng (1886) “A Dictionary of some of the more important words in the Swatow dialect”, in Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press
• 蔡俊明 [Cai Junming], editor (1991), “走鬼 tsau˥˨꜕꜒ kui˥˨꜕”, in 潮州方言詞滙 / 潮州方言词滙 (Cháozhōu fāngyán cíhuì), 香港 [Hong Kong]: 香港中文大學 / 香港中文大学 [The Chinese University of Hong Kong]