起童
Chinese
| to rise; to raise; to get up | boy; child; children | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (起童) | 起 | 童 | |
| simp. #(起童) | 起 | 童 | |
Pronunciation
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ki3 dorng2
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khí-tâng
- Puxian Min
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Sanxia, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Magong, Taichung, Xiamen, Singapore)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khí-tâng
- Tâi-lô: khí-tâng
- Phofsit Daibuun: qy'daang
- Sinological IPA (Singapore): /kʰi⁴²⁻²⁴ taŋ²⁴/
- Sinological IPA (Tainan): /kʰi⁵³⁻⁵⁵ taŋ²⁴/
- Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ taŋ²³/
- Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /kʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ taŋ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Sanxia, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Magong, Taichung, Xiamen, Singapore)
Verb
起童
- (Xiamen, Singapore and Taiwanese Hokkien, Xianyou Puxian, Youyang Puxian and Fengting Puxian Min, religion) to be possessed by spiritual entities and start dancing and prophesying (of a spirit medium)
Synonyms
References
- “起童”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2026.
- 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), “1540 跳神”, 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 442.