跑馬

Chinese

		to run; to escape	horse; surname
trad. (跑馬)		跑	馬
simp. (跑马)		跑	马

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): pǎomǎ

(Zhuyin): ㄆㄠˇ ㄇㄚˇ

(Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): pao³ ma³
Cantonese (Jyutping): paau² maa⁵
Eastern Min (BUC): pàu-mā
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pháu-bé / pháu-bée / pháu-má
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶bau-mo

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: pǎomǎ [Phonetic: páomǎ]
  - Zhuyin: ㄆㄠˇ ㄇㄚˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: pǎomǎ
  - Wade–Giles: pʻao³-ma³
  - Yale: pǎu-mǎ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: paomaa
  - Palladius: паома (paoma)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: pao³ ma³
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: paomaa
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰau⁵³ ma⁵³/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: paau² maa⁵
  - Yale: páau máh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: paau² maa⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: pao² ma⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaːu̯³⁵ maː¹³/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: pàu-mā
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰau⁵³⁻³³ ma³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pháu-bé
  - Tâi-lô: pháu-bé
  - Phofsit Daibuun: phaw'bea
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /pʰau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ be⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ be⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰau⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ be⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pháu-bée
  - Tâi-lô: pháu-bée
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bɛ⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pháu-má
  - Tâi-lô: pháu-má
  - Phofsit Daibuun: phawmar
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mã⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ mã⁵⁵⁴/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶bau-mo
  - MiniDict: bau^去 mo
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³bau-mo
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /bɔ²² mo⁴⁴/

Verb

跑馬

to ride a horse; to gallop on a horse
to have a horse race
(regional, colloquial) to emit semen involuntarily; to have a wet dream

Synonyms

(to ride a horse): 走馬／走马 (zǒumǎ), 騎馬／骑马 (qímǎ)
(to emit semen involuntarily):

Dialectal synonyms of 遺精 (“to emit semen involuntarily”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		遺精
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	遺精
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	跑馬
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	跑馬
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	走身
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	跑馬兒
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	跑馬, 遺精
Southwestern Mandarin	Guiyang	遺精
Cantonese	Hong Kong	遺精
Gan	Lichuan	遺精
Gan	Pingxiang	走火
Huizhou	Jixi	畫地圖
Jin	Xinzhou	走身子
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	洩精
Southern Min	Zhangzhou	脫雞
Wu	Shanghai	走陽, 畫地圖
	Danyang	走生, 畫地圖
	Ningbo	倒陽, 走陽

Derived terms