鹹篤篤

Chinese

		salty	serious (illness); sincere; true	serious (illness); sincere; true
trad. (鹹篤篤)		鹹	篤	篤
simp. (咸笃笃)		咸	笃	笃
alternative forms		鹹督督／咸督督

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kiâm-tok-tok

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiâm-tok-tok
    • Tâi-lô: kiâm-tok-tok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kiamdokdog
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kiam²⁴⁻²² tɔk̚³²⁻⁴ tɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kiam²⁴⁻²² tɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ tɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiam¹³⁻²² tɔk̚³²⁻⁵ tɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kiam²⁴⁻¹¹ tɔk̚³²⁻⁴ tɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiam²³⁻³³ tɔk̚³²⁻⁴ tɔk̚³²/

Adjective

鹹篤篤

1. (Hokkien, ideophonic) very salty
2. (Hokkien, ideophonic, figuratively) very stingy

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 鹹乎乎 (“(expressive) salty”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		鹹乎乎
Cantonese	Guangzhou	鹹赧赧, 鹹嘜嘜
	Dongguan	鹹赧赧, 鹹硬硬
Hakka	Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua)	鹹嗒嗒, 鹹憋憋
Southern Min	Xiamen	鹹篤篤, 鹹死死, 鹹苦苦, 鹹澀澀
	Quanzhou	鹹篤篤
	Yongchun	鹹篤篤
	Zhangzhou	鹹篤篤, 鹹死死
	Tainan	鹹篤篤

References

• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “鹹篤篤”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1], volume 1 (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC, page 255
• “鹹篤篤”, in Taiwanese-English Dictionary‎^[2], Taichung: Maryknoll Language Service Center, 1976, archived from the original on 2020-08-11, page 541.
• “Entry #13077”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.