地雷

Chinese

		earth; ground; field earth; ground; field; place; land; (subor. part. adverbial); ‑ly	thunder
trad. (地雷)		地	雷
simp. ^#(地雷)		地	雷

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dìléi

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˋ ㄌㄟˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dei⁶ leoi⁴
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): thi-lùi

(Hailu, HRS): ti^˖ lui
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tē-lûi / tōe-lûi

(Teochew, Peng'im): di⁷ lui⁵
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶di-le₆

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dìléi
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˋ ㄌㄟˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dìléi
  - Wade–Giles: ti⁴-lei²
  - Yale: dì-léi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dihlei
  - Palladius: дилэй (dilɛj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti⁵¹ leɪ̯³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: dei⁶ leoi⁴
  - Yale: deih lèuih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dei⁶ loey⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: déi⁶ lêu⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tei̯²² lɵy̯²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thi-lùi
  - Hakka Romanization System: ti lui^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ti⁴ lui²
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰi⁵⁵ lu̯i¹¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: ti^˖ lui
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰi³³ lui⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tē-lûi
  - Tâi-lô: tē-luî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dexluii
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /te³³⁻²¹ lui²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /te²²⁻²¹ lui¹³/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /te²²⁻²¹ lui²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /te⁴¹⁻²² lui²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Taipei)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōe-lûi
  - Tâi-lô: tuē-luî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: doexluii
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /tue³³⁻¹¹ lui²⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: di⁷ lui⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tī lûi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti¹¹ lui⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶di-le₆
  - MiniDict: di^去 le^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³di-le₃
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /di²² le⁴⁴/

Noun

地雷

land mine
佈設地雷／布设地雷 ― bùshè dìléi ― to lay a mine
(figurative) taboo

References

“地雷”, 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., 2026.
徐兆泉 (2009), “地雷”, in 臺灣四縣腔海陸腔客家話辭典 [Hakka Dictionary of Taiwan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hakka), Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc..

Japanese

Kanji in this term
地	雷
じ Grade: 2	らい Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) じらい [jìráí] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [d͡ʑiɾa̠i]

Noun

地(じ)雷(らい) • (jirai)

land mine
(informal) something that can trigger or enrage someone; taboo
(slang, sensitive) "land mine", used in metaphor for a person (especially a girl) who turns out to be troublesome and unstable as a romantic relationship progresses; and also associated with a fashion of black cutesy clothing with pink highlights often treated as an antithesis to 量産型.
地雷(じらい)系(けい) ― jirai-kei ― mine-type

地雷(じらい)系(けい)女子(じょし) ― jirai-kei joshi ― mine-type girl

地雷(じらい)女(おんな)・地雷(じらい)男(おとこ) ― jirai-onna jirai-otoko ― mine-girl; mine-boy

地雷(じらい)メイク ― jirai meiku ― mine-makeup

Coordinate terms

量産型(りょうさんがた) (ryōsan-gata, literally “mass-production-type”)

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

“地雷”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja in this term
地	雷

Noun

地雷 • (jiroe) (hangeul 지뢰)

hanja form^? of 지뢰 (“land mine”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
地	雷

Noun

地雷

chữ Hán form of địa lôi (“land mine”)

[NHK-1] NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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