虎頭鉗

Chinese

		tiger	head; (noun suffix)	pincers; pliers; tongs pincers; pliers; tongs; claw (of animal); to grasp with pincers; to pinch; to clamp; to restrain; to restrict; to gag
trad. (虎頭鉗)		虎	頭	鉗
simp. (虎头钳)		虎	头	钳

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hǔtóuqián

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨˇ ㄊㄡˊ ㄑㄧㄢˊ
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): fú-thèu-khiàm

(Meixian, Guangdong): fu³ têu² kiam²
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hou³ tao² kieng² / hoo³ tao² keng²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hó͘-thâu-khîⁿ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hǔtóuqián
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˇ ㄊㄡˊ ㄑㄧㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hǔtóucián
  - Wade–Giles: hu³-tʻou²-chʻien²
  - Yale: hǔ-tóu-chyán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huutourchyan
  - Palladius: хутоуцянь (xutoucjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰoʊ̯³⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fú-thèu-khiàm
  - Hakka Romanization System: fu^ˋ teu^ˇ kiam^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: fu³ teu² kiam²
  - Sinological IPA: /fu³¹ tʰeu̯¹¹ kʰi̯am¹¹/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: fu³ têu² kiam²
  - Sinological IPA: /fu³¹ tʰeu¹¹ kʰiam¹¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hou³ tao² kieng² [Phonetic: hou² lao⁵ kieng²]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hô-táu-kiáng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔu⁴⁵³⁻¹³ ^(tʰ-)lau¹³⁻¹¹ kʰiɛŋ¹³/
- (Jiangkou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hou³ tao² kieng² [Phonetic: hou² lao⁵ kieng²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou⁴⁵³⁻¹³ ^(tʰ-)lau¹³⁻¹¹ kʰiɛŋ¹³/
- (Nanri)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hoo³ tao² keng² [Phonetic: hoo² lao⁵ keng²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔ⁴⁵³⁻¹³ ^(tʰ-)lau¹³⁻¹¹ kʰe̞ŋ¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hó͘-thâu-khîⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: hóo-thâu-khînn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoftau'qvii
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰau¹³⁻²² kʰĩ¹³/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ tʰau²⁴⁻²² kʰĩ²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /hɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰau²⁴⁻²² kʰĩ²⁴/

Noun

虎頭鉗

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 老虎鉗 (“lineman's pliers”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		老虎鉗, 虎頭鉗
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	老虎鉗, 虎頭鉗
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	老虎鉗子
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	老虎鉗
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	老虎鉗子
	Xi'an	老虎鉗
	Xuzhou	老虎鉗, 老虎鉗子
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	老虎鉗子
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	老虎鉗, 鋼絲鉗
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	老虎鉗子
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	老虎鉗
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	老虎鉗子, 手鉗
Cantonese	Hong Kong	老虎鉗
Cantonese	Dongguan	老虎鉗, 蟹鉗, 那鉗
Gan	Nanchang	老虎鉗子
Gan	Lichuan	老虎鉗, 老虎鉗兒
Hakka	Meixian	虎頭鉗
	Yudu	老虎鉗
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	虎頭鉗
	Miaoli (Gongguan; N. Sixian)	咬鉗
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; N. Sixian)	咬鉗
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	咬鉗
	Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian)	虎頭鉗仔
	Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian)	虎頭鉗
	Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian)	虎頭鉗仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	老虎鉗
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	老虎鉗
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	老虎鉗
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping)	老虎鉗
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	鐵鉗
Huizhou	Jixi	老虎鉗
Jin	Taiyuan	老虎鉗子
Jin	Xinzhou	老虎鉗子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	老虎鉗
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	老虎鉗
Southern Min	Xiamen	虎頭鉗
	Quanzhou	虎頭鉗
	Zhangzhou	虎頭鉗
	Zhao'an	虎頭鉗
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	虎頭夾仔, 虎頭鉗
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	虎頭夾仔
	Kaohsiung	鐵夾仔
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	虎頭鋏仔
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	虎頭夾仔
	Kaohsiung (Cieding)	虎頭夾仔
	Yilan (Luodong)	虎頭夾仔
	Yilan (Toucheng)	虎頭夾仔
	Changhua (Yongjing)	虎頭夾仔
	Tainan (Anping)	虎頭夾仔
	Pingtung (Baoli, Checheng)	虎頭夾仔
	Penghu (Xiyu)	虎頭夾
	Jieyang	虎頭夾
	Haikou	老虎鉗
Puxian Min	Putian	虎頭鉗
	Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang)	虎頭鉗
	Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu)	虎頭鉗
	Xianyou	老虎鉗
	Xianyou (Fengting)	老虎鉗
	Xianyou (Youyang)	老虎鉗
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	老虎鉗, 鐵鉗
Wu	Shanghai	老虎鉗
	Shanghai (Chongming)	老虎鉗
	Suzhou	老虎鉗
	Danyang	老虎鉗
	Hangzhou	老虎鉗
	Ningbo	老虎鉗
	Wenzhou	老虎鉗
	Jinhua	老虎鉗

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), “772 老虎钳（钳口有刃，多用来起钉子或夹断铁丝）”, 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 367.