白肉

Chinese

		white; empty; blank white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous	meat; flesh
simp. and trad. (白肉)		白	肉

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): báiròu

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄞˊ ㄖㄡˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): baak⁶ juk⁶
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ba⁷ noeh⁷ / ba⁷ nyh⁷
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): pe̍h-bah / pe̍eh-bah

(Teochew, Peng'im): bêh⁸ nêg⁸

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: báiròu
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄞˊ ㄖㄡˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: báiròu
  - Wade–Giles: pai²-jou⁴
  - Yale: bái-ròu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bairrow
  - Palladius: байжоу (bajžou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paɪ̯³⁵ ʐoʊ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: báiròur
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄞˊ ㄖㄡˋㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: báiròur
  - Wade–Giles: pai²-jou⁴-ʼrh
  - Yale: bái-ròur
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bairrowl
  - Palladius: байжоур (bajžour)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paɪ̯³⁵ ʐɤʊ̯ɻʷ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: baak⁶ juk⁶
  - Yale: baahk yuhk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: baak⁹ juk⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: bag⁶ yug⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːk̚² jʊk̚²/
  - Homophones:
    ^edit
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    白玉
    白肉
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ba⁷ noeh⁷ [Phonetic: ba⁵ noeh⁷]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ba̍h-ne̤̍h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa¹³⁻¹¹ nœʔ⁴/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ba⁷ nyh⁷ [Phonetic: ba⁵ nyh⁷]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa²⁴⁻²¹ nyʔ⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Magong, Yilan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pe̍h-bah
  - Tâi-lô: pe̍h-bah
  - Phofsit Daibuun: peqbaq
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /pe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ baʔ³²/
  - Sinological IPA (Yilan): /pe(ʔ)⁵⁻² baʔ²/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pe̍eh-bah
  - Tâi-lô: pe̍eh-bah
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɛ(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ baʔ³²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bêh⁸ nêg⁸
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pe̍h ne̍k
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /peʔ⁴⁻² nek̚⁴/

Note: Shantou.

Noun

白肉

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 肥肉 (“fatty meat”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		肥肉
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	白肉
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	肥肉
Southwestern Mandarin	Liuzhou	肥肉
Gan	Nanchang	肥肉
	Lichuan	肥肉
	Pingxiang	肥肉
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	肥肉
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	肥肉
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	肥肉
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	肥肉
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	肥肉
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	肥肉, 肥豬肉
Jin	Xinzhou	白肉
Southern Min	Xiamen	肥肉, 白肉
	Quanzhou	肥肉
	Zhangzhou	肥肉, 白肉, 油肉
	Taipei	肥肉
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	肥肉
	Kaohsiung	肥肉
	Yilan	白肉, 肥肉
	Changhua (Lukang)	肥肉
	Taichung	肥肉
	Tainan	肥肉
	Hsinchu	肥肉
	Kinmen	肥肉
	Penghu (Magong)	白肉
	Shantou	白肉
	Leizhou	白肉
	Haikou	白肉
Wu	Shanghai	油肉, 肥肉, 壯肉
	Shanghai (Chongming)	肥肉
	Suzhou	肥肉
	Hangzhou	油肉
	Ningbo	油肉
	Wenzhou	肥肉
	Jinhua	肥肉
Xiang	Changsha	肥肉子

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “white meat”): 紅肉／红肉 (hóngròu)
(antonym(s) of “fatty meat”): 瘦肉 (shòuròu)

Derived terms

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “白肉”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 19.