刣頭

Chinese

			head; (noun suffix)
trad. (刣頭)		刣	頭
simp. (刣头)		刣	头

Etymology

Pronunciation

Eastern Min (BUC): tài-tàu
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): tai² tao²
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): thâi-thâu

(Teochew, Peng'im): tai⁵ tao⁵

Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: tài-tàu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰai⁵³⁻³³ ^(tʰ-)lau⁵³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Jiangkou, Nanri)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: tai² tao² [Phonetic: tai⁵ tao²]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: tái-táu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰai¹³⁻¹¹ tʰau¹³/
- (Xianyou, Youyang, Fengting)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: tai² tao² [Phonetic: tai⁵ tao²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰai²⁴⁻²¹ tʰau²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Jinjiang)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thâi-thâu
  - Tâi-lô: thâi-thâu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tai'taau
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰai²³⁻³³ tʰau²³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /tʰai²⁴⁻²² tʰau²⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰai²⁴⁻¹¹ tʰau²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰai¹³⁻²² tʰau¹³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: tai⁵ tao⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thâi thâu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰai⁵⁵⁻¹¹ tʰau⁵⁵/

Verb

刣⫽頭 (verb-object)

(Eastern Min, Puxian Min, Hokkien, Teochew) to behead; to decapitate
(Taiwanese Hokkien) to fire (a worker or a subordinate)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 斬首 (“to behead”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		斬首, 殺頭, 砍頭, 開刀 archaic
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	砍頭, 殺頭, 斬首
	Harbin	殺頭
	Singapore	砍頭
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	斬首, 殺頭
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	斬首
	Xining	斬首
	Xuzhou	殺頭, 砍頭
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	砍頭
	Lanzhou	斬首
	Ürümqi	砍頭
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	砍腦殼, 斬首
	Wuhan	殺頭, 砍頭
	Guiyang	砍腦殼
	Liuzhou	砍腦殼, 殺頭
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	砍頭, 斬頭
	Yangzhou	殺頭
	Nantong	剁頭
Cantonese	Guangzhou	斬頭
	Hong Kong	斬頭, 殺頭
	Taishan	斬頭
	Dongguan	斬頭
Gan	Nanchang	殺頭, 砍頭
	Lichuan	殺頭
	Pingxiang	殺腦殼
Hakka	Meixian	殺頭
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	斬頭, 㓾頭, 剁頭
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	斬頭, 㓾頭, 剁頭
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	斬頭, 㓾頭, 剁頭
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	斬頭, 㓾頭, 剁頭
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	斬頭, 㓾頭, 剁頭
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	斬頭, 㓾頭, 剁頭
Huizhou	Jixi	殺頭
Jin	Taiyuan	砍頭
Jin	Xinzhou	砍得腦
Northern Min	Jian'ou	殺頭
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	刣頭
Southern Min	Xiamen	刣頭, 斬頭
	Quanzhou	刣頭, 斬頭
	Jinjiang	刣頭
	Yongchun	刣頭
	Zhangzhou	刣頭, 斬頭, 摧頭
	Tainan	刣頭
	Penang (Hokkien)	刣頭
	Singapore (Hokkien)	刣頭
	Manila (Hokkien)	鏨頭, 刣頭
	Jieyang	斬頭, 刣頭
	Leizhou	砍頭
	Haikou	砍頭
Puxian Min	Putian	刣頭
	Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang)	刣頭
	Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu)	刣頭
	Xianyou	刣頭
	Xianyou (Fengting)	刣頭
	Xianyou (Youyang)	刣頭
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	斬首, 砍頭
Wu	Shanghai	殺頭
	Shanghai (Chongming)	殺頭
	Suzhou	殺頭
	Danyang	殺頭
	Hangzhou	殺頭
	Ningbo	殺頭
	Wenzhou	殺頭
	Jinhua	殺頭, 得頭
Xiang	Changsha	砍頭
Xiang	Loudi	斫腦殼

Derived terms

了錢生理無人做，刣頭生理有人做 / 了钱生理无人做，刣头生理有人做

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) “1641 斩首”, 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 451.