起厝

Chinese

		to rise; to raise; to get up	(Min) house; bury; to place (Min) house; bury; to place; dispose
trad. (起厝)		起	厝
simp. ^#(起厝)		起	厝

Pronunciation

Eastern Min (BUC): kī-*chuó
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ki³ cou³ / ki³ coo³
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): khí-chhù

(Teochew, Peng'im): ki² cu³

Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: kī-*chuó
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰi³³⁻⁵⁵ t͡sʰuɔ²¹³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ki³ cou³ [Phonetic: ki⁵ lou³]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: kî-chô
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰi⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ ^(t͡sʰ-)lɔu⁴⁵³/
- (Jiangkou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ki³ cou³ [Phonetic: ki⁵ lou³]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰi⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ ^(t͡sʰ-)lou⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ki³ cou³ [Phonetic: ki⁵ lou³]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰi³³²⁻²¹ ^(t͡sʰ-)lɔu³³²/
- (Youyang, Fengting)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ki³ cou³ [Phonetic: ki⁵ lou³]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰi³³²⁻²¹ ^(t͡sʰ-)lou³³²/
- (Nanri)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ki³ coo³ [Phonetic: ki⁵ loo³]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰi⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ ^(t͡sʰ-)lɔ⁴⁵³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Tong'an, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khí-chhù
  - Tâi-lô: khí-tshù
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qyzhux
  - Sinological IPA (Tong'an): /kʰi³¹⁻²⁴ t͡sʰu¹¹²/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /kʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰu¹¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Singapore): /kʰi⁴²⁻²⁴ t͡sʰu²¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sʰu⁴¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰu²¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰu²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ki² cu³
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khí tshù
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰi⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡sʰu²¹³/

Verb

起⫽厝 (verb-object)

(Eastern Min, Hokkien, Teochew, Puxian Min) to build a house

Synonyms

蓋房／盖房 (gàifáng)
(Cantonese, Hakka, Xiang) 起屋
(Northern Min) 開厝／开厝

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), “592 盖房子”, 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 348.