黑白無常

Chinese

		black and white; right and wrong; good and evil	changeable; variable; sporadic changeable; variable; sporadic; irregular; inconsistent
trad. (黑白無常)		黑白	無常
simp. (黑白无常)		黑白	无常

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Hēibái Wúcháng

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄟ ㄅㄞˊ ㄨˊ ㄔㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hak¹ baak⁶ mou⁴ soeng⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Hēibái Wúcháng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄟ ㄅㄞˊ ㄨˊ ㄔㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Heibái Wúcháng
    • Wade–Giles: Hei¹-pai² Wu²-chʻang²
    • Yale: Hēi-bái Wú-cháng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Heibair Wucharng
    • Palladius: Хэйбай Учан (Xɛjbaj Učan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xeɪ̯⁵⁵ paɪ̯³⁵ u³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hak¹ baak⁶ mou⁴ soeng⁴
    • Yale: hāk baahk mòuh sèuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hak⁷ baak⁹ mou⁴ soeng⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: heg¹ bag⁶ mou⁴ sêng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐk̚⁵ paːk̚² mou̯²¹ sœːŋ²¹/

Proper noun

黑白無常

1. (religion) Heibai Wuchang (two deities in charge of escorting the spirits of the dead to the underworld)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 黑白無常 (“Heibai Wuchang”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		黑白無常, 范謝將軍, 謝范將軍
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	七爺八爺
	Singapore	黑白無常
Cantonese	Hong Kong	黑白無常
Southern Min	Tainan	七爺八爺, 矮躼伯仔
	Singapore (Hokkien)	大二阿伯, 大二爺伯