生臊
Chinese
to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw |
bashfulness; smell of urine | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (生臊) | 生 | 臊 | |
| simp. #(生臊) | 生 | 臊 | |
Pronunciation
- Cantonese (Jyutping): saang1 sou1
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chheⁿ-chho
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: saang1 sou1
- Yale: sāang sōu
- Cantonese Pinyin: saang1 sou1
- Guangdong Romanization: sang1 sou1
- Sinological IPA (key): /saːŋ⁵⁵ sou̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chheⁿ-chho
- Tâi-lô: tshenn-tsho
- Phofsit Daibuun: zhvezhoy
- Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰɛ̃⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰo⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
Verb
生臊
- (Cantonese) to go through yuezi, the traditional Chinese form of postpartum recovery that lasts for one month after childbirth, sometimes referred to in English as confinement or lying-in
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 坐月子 (“to go through postpartum confinement”) [map]
Noun
生臊
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien) dishes including vegetables and fish