上童

Chinese

		up; on; on top up; on; on top; upon; first; previous or last; upper; higher; above; previous; to climb; to go into; to go up	boy; child; children
simp. and trad. (上童)		上	童

Pronunciation

Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sieo⁵ dorng² / siao⁵ dorng²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiūⁿ-tâng / chiōⁿ-tâng

Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sieo⁵ dorng² [Phonetic: sieo⁵ lorng²]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sā̤uⁿ-dó̤ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬieu¹¹ ^(t-)lɒŋ¹³/
- (Jiangkou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: siao⁵ dorng² [Phonetic: siao⁵ lorng²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiɐu¹¹ ^(t-)lɒŋ¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiūⁿ-tâng
  - Tâi-lô: tsiūnn-tâng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: cviuxdaang
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siũ²²⁻²¹ taŋ²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siũ³³⁻²¹ taŋ²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /t͡siũ³³⁻¹¹ taŋ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiōⁿ-tâng
  - Tâi-lô: tsiōnn-tâng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: cvioixdaang
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siɔ̃²²⁻²¹ taŋ¹³/

Verb

上⫽童 (verb-object)

(Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien, Putian Puxian and Jiangkou Puxian Min, religion) to be possessed by spiritual entities and start dancing and prophesying (of a spirit medium)

Synonyms

上乩 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
落童 (Puxian Min)
起乩 (qǐjī)
起童 (Puxian Min, Hokkien)
趒童 (Hokkien)
跳童 (Hokkien)
降乩 (jiàngjī)

References

李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “1540 跳神”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 442.