蟲蟻
Chinese
| animal; insect | ant | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (蟲蟻) | 蟲 | 蟻 | |
| simp. (虫蚁) | 虫 | 蚁 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): cung4 ngai5
- Eastern Min (BUC): tè̤ng-ngiê
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): tang2 hyor5 / tang2 hya5
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thâng-hiā / thâng-hiǎ
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: chóngyǐ
- Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄥˊ ㄧˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: chóngyǐ
- Wade–Giles: chʻung2-i3
- Yale: chúng-yǐ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chorngyii
- Palladius: чунъи (čunʺi)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʊŋ³⁵ i²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: cung4 ngai5
- Yale: chùhng ngáih
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsung4 ngai5
- Guangdong Romanization: cung4 ngei5
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰʊŋ²¹ ŋɐi̯¹³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Eastern Min
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: tang2 hyor5 [Phonetic: tang4 ngyor5]
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: táng-hiō̤
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰaŋ¹³⁻⁴² (h-)ŋyɒ¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: tang2 hya5 [Phonetic: tang4 ngya5]
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰaŋ²⁴⁻⁴² (h-)ŋya²¹/
- (Putian)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thâng-hiā
- Tâi-lô: thâng-hiā
- Phofsit Daibuun: tanghia
- Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /tʰaŋ²⁴⁻²² hia²²/
- Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰaŋ²³⁻³³ hia³³/
- Sinological IPA (Taipei): /tʰaŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ hia³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thâng-hiǎ
- Tâi-lô: thâng-hiǎ
- Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰaŋ²⁴⁻²² hia²²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
Noun
蟲蟻
- insects; bugs
- 1912, Gū-sing-io̤h Cé̤ng-cṳ, Hing-hua̍ Báⁿ-uā (舊新約全書，興化平話) [The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments in the Hinghwa Dialect, Romanized], Hinghwa City: American Bible Society, Cho̤̍ng-sa̤̍ Gi̍ (創世記) [Genesis] 1:24-25:
- Siō̤ng-Da̤̍ gô̤ng, Dā̤ da̤u̍h muâ saⁿ ua̍h ē mo̍ih-nō̤, deo bíng i ē cê̤ng-lūi; táu-saⁿ, táng-hiō̤, iâ-siu̍, deo bíng i ē cê̤ng-lūi: cuh ū ah-na. Siō̤ng-Da̤̍ cuh ceo̍ iâ-siu̍, deo bíng i ē cê̤ng-lūi, táu-saⁿ deo bíng i ē cê̤ng-lūi, dā̤ sā̤uⁿ táng-hiō̤, deo bíng i ē cê̤ng-lūi: Siō̤ng-Da̤̍ kua̍ⁿ ah-na sī heô.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (by extension) small creatures
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 蟲子 (“insect; bug; worm (general term)”) [map]
References
- 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “蟲蟻”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary][1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
- 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), “虫蚁”, 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 523.