半工
Chinese
half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half |
work; worker; skill work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labour | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (半工) |
半 | 工 | |
Pronunciation
- Northern Min (KCR): bui̿ng-góng
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): bua4 gang1 / buo4 gang1 / buann4 gang1
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pòaⁿ-kang
- Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
- Kienning Colloquial Romanized: bui̿ng-góng
- Sinological IPA (key): /puiŋ³³ kɔŋ⁵⁴/
- (Jian'ou)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian, Nanri)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: bua4 gang1 [Phonetic: bua1 ang1]
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: bua̍ⁿ-gang
- Sinological IPA (key): /pua⁴²⁻⁵⁵ (k-)aŋ⁵³³/
- (Jiangkou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: buo4 gang1 [Phonetic: buo1 ang1]
- Sinological IPA (key): /puo⁴²⁻⁵⁵ (k-)aŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou, Youyang, Fengting)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: buann4 gang1 [Phonetic: buann1 ang1]
- Sinological IPA (key): /pũã⁴²⁻⁵⁵ (k-)aŋ⁵⁴⁴/
- (Putian, Nanri)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pòaⁿ-kang
- Tâi-lô: puànn-kang
- Phofsit Daibuun: pvoarkafng
- IPA (Xiamen): /puã²¹⁻⁵³ kaŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /puã⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ kaŋ³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /puã²¹⁻⁵³ kaŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /puã¹¹⁻⁵³ kaŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /puã²¹⁻⁴¹ kaŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
Noun
半工
- (Mainland China Hokkien) half day work
- (Northern Min, Quanzhou, Xiamen and Taiwanese Hokkien, Puxian Min) half a day
- (Northern Min, figuratively) a long time; quite a while; a while; forever
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 半天 (“half a day”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 半天 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Harbin | 半天, 半晌 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 半天 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 半晌 |
| Xi'an | 半天 | |
| Xining | 半天 | |
| Xuzhou | 半天 | |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 半天 |
| Ürümqi | 半天 | |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 半天 |
| Wuhan | 半天 | |
| Guiyang | 半天 | |
| Liuzhou | 半天 | |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 半天 |
| Yangzhou | 半天 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 半晝 |
| Dongguan | 半日 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 半日 |
| Lichuan | 半日 | |
| Pingxiang | 半工 | |
| Hakka | Meixian | 半日 |
| Yudu | 半工, 半日 | |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 半日 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 半天, 半晌 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 半工 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 半日 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 半工, 半日, 半晡 |
| Quanzhou | 半工, 半日 | |
| Zhangzhou | 半日 | |
| Zhangzhou (Changtai) | 半晡仔 | |
| Tainan | 半工 GT, 半日 GT, 半晡 GT | |
| Manila (Hokkien) | 半日 | |
| Haikou | 半日 | |
| Puxian Min | Putian | 半工, 半日 |
| Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang) | 半工, 半日 | |
| Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu) | 半工 | |
| Xianyou | 半工 | |
| Xianyou (Fengting) | 半工 | |
| Xianyou (Youyang) | 半工 | |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 半日 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 半日, 半天, 半白天 |
| Shanghai (Chongming) | 半天, 半日 | |
| Suzhou | 半日, 半日天 | |
| Danyang | 半天 | |
| Hangzhou | 半日 | |
| Ningbo | 半日 | |
| Wenzhou | 半日 | |
| Jinhua | 半日 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 半天 |
| Loudi | 半日 | |
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) “181 半天”, 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 308.