反手

Chinese

		wrong side out or up; anti-	hand; convenient; ‑er
trad. (反手)		反	手
simp. ^#(反手)		反	手

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fǎnshǒu

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄢˇ ㄕㄡˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): faan² sau²
Hakka (Changting, Changting Pinyin): fang³ sheu³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoán-chhiú / péng-chhiú

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fǎnshǒu [Phonetic: fánshǒu]
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˇ ㄕㄡˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fǎnshǒu
  - Wade–Giles: fan³-shou³
  - Yale: fǎn-shǒu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: faanshoou
  - Palladius: фаньшоу (fanʹšou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: faan² sau²
  - Yale: fáan sáu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: faan² sau²
  - Guangdong Romanization: fan² seo²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn³⁵ sɐu̯³⁵/
Hakka
- (Changting)
  - Changting Pinyin: fang³ sheu³
  - Sinological IPA: /faŋ⁴²⁻³³ ʃəɯ⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoán-chhiú
  - Tâi-lô: huán-tshiú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoafnchiuo
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /huan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sʰiu⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /huan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰiu⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰiu⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: péng-chhiú
  - Tâi-lô: píng-tshiú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pefngchiuo
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɪŋ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰiu⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /piɪŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰiu⁵³/

Adjective

反手

easily done

Noun

反手

backhand
(Northern Min) left side; the left

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 左邊 (“left side; the left”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		左
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		左邊, 左手邊, 左首, 左側, 左面
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	左邊兒
	Taiwan	左邊
	Harbin	左邊兒拉, 左手
	Singapore	左邊
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	左邊兒
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	左邊兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	左邊兒, 左面兒
	Wanrong	左挨
	Xi'an	左岸兒, 左邊兒, 左手
	Xining	左首, 左面, 左面兒, 左手
	Xuzhou	左邊, 左邊兒
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	左邊
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	左面手
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	左邊兒, 左傍個
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	左邊, 左手邊, 左手
	Wuhan	左邊, 左手, 倒手
	Guiyang	左邊, 左手邊
	Liuzhou	左邊手
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	左邊
	Yangzhou	左首, 左邊
	Hefei	左邊
Cantonese	Guangzhou	左便, 左手便
	Hong Kong	左便, 左手便, 左邊, 左手邊
	Hong Kong (San Tin; Weitou)	左手邊
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin; Weitou)	左便
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	左邊
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	左邊
	Macau	左便
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	左便
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	左便
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	左便
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	左便
	Foshan	左便
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	左便
	Foshan (Shunde)	左便
	Foshan (Sanshui)	左便
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	左邊
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	左便
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	左便
	Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka)	左便
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	左便
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	左便
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	左邊
	Taishan	左便, 左邊
	Kaiping (Chikan)	左邊
	Enping (Niujiang)	左便
	Heshan (Yayao)	左便
	Dongguan	左便, 左手便, 左邊
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	左便
	Yangjiang	左便
	Singapore (Guangfu)	左便
Gan	Nanchang	左邊, 左首
	Lichuan	左邊, 左首
	Pingxiang	左邊, 左手邊, 左手
Hakka	Meixian	左片, 左手析
	Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua)	左邊
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	左邊
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	左邊
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	左邊
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	左片
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	左片
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	左片
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	左片
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	左片
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	倒手裡
	Hong Kong	左手析
Huizhou	Jixi	左邊
Jin	Taiyuan	左半切
Jin	Xinzhou	左半兒
Northern Min	Jian'ou	左邊, 反手, 反介, 左介, 反手一介塊
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	小邊
Eastern Min	Fuqing	倒邊
Southern Min	Xiamen	倒爿, 倒手爿, 細爿
	Quanzhou	倒爿, 倒手爿
	Jinjiang	倒爿, 倒手爿, 細爿
	Zhangzhou	倒爿, 倒手爿
	Taipei	倒爿
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	倒面
	Kaohsiung	倒爿
	Yilan	倒爿
	Changhua (Lukang)	倒爿
	Taichung	倒爿
	Tainan	倒面, 倒手爿
	Hsinchu	倒爿
	Kinmen	倒爿
	Penghu (Magong)	倒面
	Penang (Hokkien)	倒爿, 倒手爿
	Singapore (Hokkien)	倒爿, 倒手爿
	Manila (Hokkien)	倒爿, 倒手爿
	Chaozhou	倒手爿, 左爿
	Shantou	左爿, 倒手爿
	Jieyang	倒手爿, 倒手片, 左爿, 左片
	Haikou	左爿, 左邊手, 左爿手, 左邊身, 左爿身
Puxian Min	Putian	倒爿
Puxian Min	Xianyou	倒爿
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	左便
Wu	Shanghai	左面, 左邊, 左半爿
	Shanghai (Chongming)	濟手
	Suzhou	左面, 濟面
	Danyang	濟邊
	Hangzhou	左邊, 借手邊
	Ningbo	借手半邊
	Wenzhou	左手面, 左面
	Jinhua	借手面, 借面手, 左面, 左面手
	Jinhua (Tangxi)	小手邊爿
Xiang	Changsha	左邊
	Loudi	左手邊
	Shuangfeng	左邊

Verb

反手

to turn a hand over; to put one's hand over one's back

Synonyms

回手 (huíshǒu)

References

周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “反手”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 184.