鐵釘

Chinese

		iron	nail
trad. (鐵釘)		鐵	釘
simp. (铁钉)		铁	钉

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tiědīng

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄝˇ ㄉㄧㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tit³ deng¹
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ti⁶ deng¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thih-tan / thih-teng
Wu (Suzhou, Wugniu): ⁷thiq-tin₁

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tiědīng
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄝˇ ㄉㄧㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tiěding
  - Wade–Giles: tʻieh³-ting¹
  - Yale: tyě-dīng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tieeding
  - Palladius: тедин (tedin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ tiŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tit³ deng¹
  - Yale: tit dēng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tit⁸ deng¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: tid³ déng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːt̚³ tɛːŋ⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ti⁶ deng¹ [Phonetic: ti¹ leng¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: tī-deng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi¹¹⁻⁵⁵ ^(t-)lɛŋ⁵³³/
- (Nanri)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ti⁶ deng¹ [Phonetic: ti¹ leng¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi¹¹⁻⁵⁵ ^(t-)le̞ŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou, Youyang, Fengting)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ti⁶ deng¹ [Phonetic: ti¹ leng¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi²¹⁻⁵⁵ ^(t-)lɛŋ⁵⁴⁴/
- (Jiangkou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ti⁶ deng¹ [Phonetic: ti¹ eng¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi¹¹⁻⁵⁵ ^(t-)ɛŋ⁵³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thih-tan
  - Tâi-lô: thih-tan
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tihdafn
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰi(ʔ)⁵ tan³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thih-teng
  - Tâi-lô: thih-ting
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tihdefng
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Zhangzhou): /tʰi(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ tiɪŋ⁴⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰi(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ tiɪŋ⁴⁴/
Wu
- (Northern: Suzhou)
  - Wugniu: ⁷thiq-tin₁
  - MiniDict: thih^入 tin^平
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /tʰiɪʔ⁴⁴ tin²³/

Noun

鐵釘

iron nail; wire nail

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 釘子 (“nail”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		釘子
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	釘子
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	釘子
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	釘子
	Wanrong	釘子
	Xi'an	釘子
	Xining	釘子
	Xuzhou	釘子, 釘, 洋釘, 洋釘子
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	釘子
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	釘子
	Wuhan	釘子
	Guiyang	釘子
	Liuzhou	釘子
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	釘子
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	釘子, 釘, 洋釘
Cantonese	Hong Kong	釘
Gan	Nanchang	釘子
Gan	Lichuan	釘仔
Hakka	Yudu	釘子
Jin	Taiyuan	釘子
Jin	Xinzhou	釘子
Southern Min	Xiamen	釘仔, 鐵釘, 鐵釘子
	Quanzhou	釘仔, 鐵釘, 鐵釘子
	Zhangzhou	釘仔, 鐵釘, 鐵釘子
	Tainan	釘仔 GT
	Manila (Hokkien)	釘仔
Wu	Ningbo	釘子, 洋釘
Xiang	Loudi	釘子
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Derived terms

鐵釘頭 / 铁钉头

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), “770 钉子”, 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 366.