面珠

Chinese

		face; side; surface face; side; surface; aspect; top	pearl; bead
simp. and trad. (面珠)		面	珠
alternative forms		面䏭

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): min⁶ zyu¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: min⁶ zyu¹
    • Yale: mihn jyū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: min⁶ dzy¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: min⁶ ju¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miːn²² t͡syː⁵⁵/

Noun

面珠

1. (Cantonese, anatomy) cheek

   • 啜面珠 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

     From: 1997, 鄭定歐, 香港粵語詞典, page 349

     zyut³ min⁶ zyu¹ [Jyutping]

     kiss on the cheek

Synonyms

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• 腮 (sāi)
• 腮頰 / 腮颊 (sāijiá)
• 臉巴子 / 脸巴子 (liǎnbāzi)
• 臉蛋 / 脸蛋 (liǎndàn) (colloquial)
• 臉蛋子 / 脸蛋子 (liǎndànzi) (colloquial)
• 臉頰 / 脸颊 (liǎnjiá)
• 面頰 / 面颊 (miànjiá)
• 頰 / 颊 (jiá)

Dialectal synonyms of 臉頰 (“cheek”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		臉頰
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	腮幫子
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	腮幫子, 腮幫兒, 腮
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	腮幫子, 腮
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	腮幫子
	Wanrong	臉腮裡, 腮
	Xi'an	腮幫子
	Xining	腮幫子
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	腮幫子
	Ürümqi	腮幫子
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	腮幫子, 腮幫
	Wuhan	腮幫子, 腮
	Guiyang	腮幫子
	Liuzhou	腮巴
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	腮幫
	Yangzhou	腮幫子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	面珠, 面珠墩, 腮
	Hong Kong	面珠, 面珠墩
	Dongguan	面珠墩
Gan	Nanchang	腮
	Lichuan	面腮
	Pingxiang	腮
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	面頰卵
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	面頰卵
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	面頰卵
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	面頰卵
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	面頰卵
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	面頰卵
Huizhou	Jixi	面頰腮
Jin	Taiyuan	腮幫子
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	腮
Southern Min	Xiamen	喙䫌, 牙槽, 牙槽腮
	Quanzhou	喙䫌, 牙槽
	Jinjiang	喙邊, 喙䫌
	Zhangzhou	喙䫌, 牙槽, 牙槽腮
	Taipei	喙䫌
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	喙爪
	Kaohsiung	喙䫌
	Yilan	喙䫌
	Changhua (Lukang)	喙䫌
	Taichung	喙䫌
	Tainan	喙䫌
	Hsinchu	喙䫌
	Kinmen	喙䫌
	Penghu (Magong)	喙䫌
	Jieyang	脥肍
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	面珠墩
Wu	Hangzhou	腮幫骨
	Ningbo	面頰巴
	Jinhua	面頰鼓兒
Xiang	Changsha	腮巴子
	Loudi	腮巴子
	Hengyang	腮幫

Derived terms

• 面珠墩