佳哉
Chinese
| excellent | (exclamatory or interrog. part.) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (佳哉) |
佳 | 哉 | |
| alternative forms | 加再 皆再 該哉／该哉 介再 該載／该载 | ||
Pronunciation
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kai-chài / ka-chài / ka-chāi
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, variant in Taiwan, Singapore)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kai-chài
- Tâi-lô: kai-tsài
- Phofsit Daibuun: kaizaix
- IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Singapore): /kai⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sai²¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kai⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sai²¹/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kai³³ t͡sai⁴¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /kai⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sai¹¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ka-chài
- Tâi-lô: ka-tsài
- Phofsit Daibuun: kazaix
- IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Singapore): /ka⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sai²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /ka⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sai¹¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ka⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sai²¹/
- (Hokkien: Longyan)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ka-chāi
- Tâi-lô: ka-tsāi
- Phofsit Daibuun: kazai
- IPA (Longyan): /ka³³⁴ t͡sai⁵⁵/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, variant in Taiwan, Singapore)
Adverb
佳哉
Synonyms
- 多虧 / 多亏 (duōkuī)
- 好代得 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
- 好佳哉 (Hokkien)
- 好值得 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
- 好在 (hǎozài)
- 好彩 (Cantonese, Hakka)
- 好得 (Hakka, Hokkien, Teochew)
- 好是 (hǎoshì) (formal)
- 好路 (Xiamen Hokkien)
- 幸好 (xìnghǎo)
- 幸而 (xìng'ér)
- 幸虧 / 幸亏 (xìngkuī)
- 得虧 / 得亏 (děikuī) (dialectal)
- 打幫 / 打帮 (Hakka)
- 搭幫 / 搭帮 (Hengyang Xiang)
- 虧 / 亏 (kuī)
- 虧得 / 亏得 (kuīde)
- 造化 (cô̤-*huá) (Eastern Min)
References
- 郭启熹 [Guo, Qixi], editor (2016), “佳哉”, in 龙岩方言词典 LONGYAN FANGYAN CIDIAN [Dictionary of Longyan dialect] (overall work in Min Nan and Mandarin), Xiamen: 鷺江出版社 [Lujiang Publishing House], →ISBN, page 127.