傻瓜

Chinese

		foolish	(dialectal) stupid
trad. (傻瓜)		傻	瓜
simp. ^#(傻瓜)		傻	瓜

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shǎguā

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄚˇ ㄍㄨㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): so⁴ gwaa¹
Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): so² gua¹
Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): sa⁶ gua¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shǎguā
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄚˇ ㄍㄨㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shǎgua
  - Wade–Giles: sha³-kua¹
  - Yale: shǎ-gwā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shaagua
  - Palladius: шагуа (šagua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂä²¹⁴⁻²¹ ku̯ä⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: so⁴ gwaa¹
  - Yale: sòh gwā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: so⁴ gwaa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: so⁴ gua¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɔː²¹ kʷaː⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: so² gua¹
  - Sinological IPA: /so¹¹ kua⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: sa⁶ gua¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: să kua
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sa³⁵⁻¹¹ kua³³/

Noun

傻瓜

silly person; fool; idiot (Classifier: 個／个 m)
(term of affection) honey; babe

Usage notes

Semantically very similar to Korean 바보 (babo, “fool; idiot; babe”).

Synonyms

(idiot):

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人頭豬腦 / 人头猪脑 (réntóuzhūnǎo) (chiefly Cantonese)
低能兒 / 低能儿 (dīnéng'ér)
侗戇 / 侗戆 (Hokkien)
傻子 (shǎzi)
北七 (běiqī) (Taiwanese Mandarin, slang)
呆大 (Wu)
呆子 (dāizi)
呆瓜 (dāiguā)
哈卵 (ha³ lonn³) (Xiang, Southwestern Mandarin, vulgar)
哚哥 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
喥頭 / 喥头 (Wu)
壋將 / 垱将 (Hokkien)
大戇呆 / 大戆呆 (Hokkien)
大戇牯 / 大戆牯 (Hakka)
大番薯 (Hakka)
愚人 (yúrén)
戇人 / 戆人 (Hakka, Hokkien, Wu)
戇卵 / 戆卵 (Northern Wu, vulgar)
戇呆 / 戆呆 (Hokkien)
戇囝 / 戆囝 (Hokkien, Teochew)
戇大 / 戆大 (Wu)
戇大呆 / 戆大呆 (Hokkien)
戇大豬 / 戆大猪 (Hokkien)
戇猴 / 戆猴 (Hokkien)
戇鳩 / 戆鸠 (ngong⁶ gau¹) (Cantonese)
木大 (Wu)
痴子 (chīzi) (regional)
白痴 (báichī)
笨人 (bènrén)
笨蛋 (bèndàn)
笨貨 / 笨货 (bènhuò)
老襯 / 老衬 (lou⁵ can³) (Cantonese)
蠢人 (chǔnrén)
蠢材 (chǔncái)
蠢蛋
豆渣腦殼 / 豆渣脑壳 (dou⁴ za¹ nao³ ko²) (Sichuanese)
錘哥 / 锤哥 (Hokkien)
闇雞 / 𬮴鸡 (Hokkien)
鵝牯 / 鹅牯 (Hakka)

Dialectal synonyms of 傻子 (“fool; idiot”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		傻子, 傻瓜
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	傻狗兒, 傻蛋, 傻屄 pejorative
	Taiwan	傻子, 傻瓜, 凱子
	Harbin	傻子, 傻狍子, 傻錛兒錛兒, 傻蛋, 傻屄 pejorative
	Singapore	傻瓜
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	傻瓜, 傻子, 呆子
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	傻瓜, 傻屌, 傻膀
Central Plains Mandarin	Xuzhou	傻子
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	傻子
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	哈巴兒, 哈娃兒, 嘻瓜娃兒, 吞兒寶
	Guilin	哈崽, 哈卵 vulgar
	Liuzhou	傻崽, 哈崽
	Luzhai	傻崽, 哈崽, 憨崽
	Nanning (Wuming)	痴崽, 癲崽
	Dagudi (Maliba)	楞人
	Reshuitang (Longling)	傻瓜, 憨包
	Mae Salong (Lancang)	傻瓜, 笨蛋, 憨包, 包人
	Mae Sai (Tengchong)	傻瓜, 憨人
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	傻子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	傻瓜, 阿傻, 傻佬 man, 傻婆 woman, 傻仔 boy, 戇居仔 boy
	Hong Kong	傻瓜, 傻佬 man, 傻婆 woman, 傻仔 boy, 傻女 girl, 傻妹 girl, 死蠢, kai子 dated slang, Lulu dated slang, Robert male, dated slang, Robert仔 male, dated slang, 孟加拉 dated slang
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin; Weitou)	懵佬
	Macau	傻佬
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	傻佬 man, 傻婆 woman, 傻仔 boy
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	傻佬 man, 傻婆 woman, 傻仔 boy
	Foshan	傻佬 man, 傻婆 woman, 傻仔 boy
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	傻佬 man, 傻婆 woman, 傻仔 boy
	Foshan (Shunde)	傻佬, 傻仔
	Foshan (Sanshui)	傻仔, 蠢仔
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	傻仔
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	傻仔
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	傻佬
	Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka)	傻仔, 傻佬
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	傻仔, 傻佬
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	傻佬
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	傻佬
	Taishan	吽仔
	Kaiping (Chikan)	吽仔
	Enping (Niujiang)	傻仔
	Heshan (Yayao)	傻仔
	Dongguan	傻佬 man, 傻婆 woman, 傻仔 boy, 傻女 girl, 懵佬 man, 懵婆 woman, 懵仔 boy, 懵女 girl
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	傻佬 man, 傻婆 woman, 傻仔 boy
	Beihai	傻瓜
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	傻仔, 傻佬
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	傻佬, 傻婆, 廢佬
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	傻仔, 傻佬
	Penang (Guangfu)	傻仔
	Singapore (Guangfu)	傻仔
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	傻佬
	Móng Cái	傻仔, 傻佬
Gan	Nanchang	蟬頭
Hakka	Meixian	傻瓜, 戇牯, 傻貨, 傻仔
	Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua)	懵佬 man, 懵婆 woman, 懵仔 boy
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	傻佬 man, 傻婆 woman, 傻仔 boy
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	傻佬 man, 傻婆 woman, 傻仔 boy
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	傻佬
	Hong Kong	傻佬
Jin	Taiyuan	傻子, 傻屄 pejorative
Jin	Xinzhou	傻瓜子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	賴仔, 賴撇仔
Southern Min	Xiamen	戇儂, 歁囝
	Taipei	戇儂 GT, 戇猴 GT, 宋盼的 GT, 盼仔 GT
	Tainan	戇儂, 戇虎的
	Penang (Hokkien)	戇儂, 戇居, 柴頭, 戇囝, 傻仔
	Singapore (Hokkien)	戇囝
	Manila (Hokkien)	山猴, 戇戇鬼, 洽洽仔, 三八儂, ka-mú-tī, 大番薯
	Chaozhou	戇囝, 白仁囝
	Shantou	傻瓜, 㦙囝, 傻哥
	Leizhou	妃松, 老松, 山邁
	Haikou	傻囝
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	傻佬
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Sanxiang)	傻佬
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	傻崽
Wu	Shanghai	戇人, 阿戇, 踱頭, 壽頭, 戇浮屍 vulgar
Xiang	Changsha	哈寶, 苕它, 蠢人子, 蠢寶, 痴呆子, 哈卵 vulgar
Xiang	Loudi	哈寶, 哈聖, 哈子
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

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Derived terms

傻瓜機 / 傻瓜机 (shǎguājī)
傻瓜瓜
傻瓜相機 / 傻瓜相机 (shǎguā xiàngjī)
小傻瓜