起魔

Chinese

		to rise; to raise; to get up	devil
trad. (起魔)		起	魔
simp. #(起魔)		起	魔

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khí-mô͘

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khí-mô͘
    • Tâi-lô: khí-môo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qymoo
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mɔ̃¹³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ mɔ̃²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mɔ̃²⁴/

Verb

起魔

1. (Southern Min) to go crazy; to go mad; to lose one's mind; to go nuts; to freak out
2. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) to act shamelessly; to nag unreasonably

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 發瘋 (“to go mad”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		發瘋, 發狂
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	發瘋
	Taiwan	發瘋
	Singapore	發神經
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	發瘋
Southwestern Mandarin	Liuzhou	發癲, 發神經
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	發瘋, 發痴
Cantonese	Guangzhou	發癲, 發神經
	Hong Kong	發癲, 發神經
	Singapore (Guangfu)	發神經
Gan	Nanchang	發神經
	Pingxiang	發癲
Hakka	Meixian	發癲
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	發癲
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	發癲
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	發癲
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	發癲
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	發癲
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	起痟
Huizhou	Jixi	發神經
Jin	Taiyuan	發瘋
Northern Min	Jian'ou	發癲, 病狂
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	發癲, 發癲狂
Southern Min	Xiamen	起痟, 痟, 掠狂, 起魔, 起魔神, 起狂, 起神, 起歁, 著狂, 著熱狂, 攑狂
	Quanzhou	起痟, 痟, 起神, 起魔, 起狂, 著狂
	Jinjiang	起痟
	Zhangzhou	起痟, 痟, 起魔, 起魔神, 起狂, 起神, 起戇, 著狂, 著熱狂
	Kaohsiung	起痟
	Changhua (Lukang)	起痟
	Taichung	起痟
	Taichung (Wuqi)	起痟
	Tainan	起痟
	Taitung	起神經
	Hsinchu	起神經
	Penghu (Magong)	起痟
	Singapore (Hokkien)	起痟
	Manila (Hokkien)	起痟, 起狂
	Singapore (Teochew)	起癲
	Leizhou	發癲
Wu	Shanghai	發瘋, 發痴, 發神經, 發神經病
	Shanghai (Chongming)	發痴
	Suzhou	發痴
	Danyang	發痴
	Hangzhou	發痴, 發神經
	Ningbo	發痴
	Wenzhou	癲起
Xiang	Changsha	發癲, 發神經
	Loudi	發癲

• (to act shamelessly): (Hokkien) 起魔神