翻草
Chinese
| flit about; translate; turn over | grass; straw; draft (of a document) grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (翻草) | 翻 | 草 | |
| simp. #(翻草) | 翻 | 草 | |
Pronunciation
- Cantonese (Jyutping): faan1 cou2
- Southern Min
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: faan1 cou2
- Yale: fāan chóu
- Cantonese Pinyin: faan1 tsou2
- Guangdong Romanization: fan1 cou2
- Sinological IPA (key): /faːn⁵⁵ t͡sʰou̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoan-chháu
- Tâi-lô: huan-tsháu
- Phofsit Daibuun: hoanzhao
- Sinological IPA (Taipei): /huan⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰau⁵³/
- Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰau⁴¹/
- Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /huan⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰau⁵³/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: huang1 cao2
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: huang tsháu
- Sinological IPA (key): /huaŋ³³⁻²³ t͡sʰau⁵²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
Verb
翻草
- (Cantonese, Southern Min, Zhao'an Hakka) to ruminate; to chew the cud
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 反芻 (“to ruminate; to chew the cud”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 反芻, 倒嚼, 倒噍 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 反芻, 倒嚼 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 倒噍 |
| Xi'an | 倒磨 | |
| Xining | 倒磨 | |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 倒磨 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 回嚼 |
| Liuzhou | 反草 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 翻草 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 倒胲 |
| Huidong (Daling) | 倒草 | |
| Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang) | 翻肚 | |
| Changting | 倒草 | |
| Wuping | 倒草 | |
| Wuping (Pingyu) | 倒草 | |
| Liancheng | 倒草 | |
| Ruijin | 倒草 | |
| Shicheng | 倒草 | |
| Shangyou (Shexi) | 倒草 | |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 倒草 | |
| Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 倒草 | |
| Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 倒草 | |
| Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 倒草 | |
| Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 倒草 | |
| Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 翻草 | |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 倒草 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 倒嚼 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 翻草, 倒噍 |
| Zhangzhou | 倒噍 | |
| Tainan | 翻草 | |
| Wu | Jinhua | 轉嚼 |
References
- Duffus, William (1883), “ruminate”, in English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Swatow, Swatow: English Presbyterian Mission Press, page 231
- 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “翻草”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary][1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC