土醫生

Chinese

		earth; dust; rural earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian	doctor; physician and surgeon; medical practitioner
trad. (土醫生)		土	醫生
simp. (土医生)		土	医生

Pronunciation

Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): tou³ i¹ seng¹

Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: tou³ i¹ seng¹ [Phonetic: tou⁵ i⁵ eng¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: tô-i-seng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔu⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ i⁵³³⁻¹¹ ^(ɬ-)ɛŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: tou³ i¹ seng¹ [Phonetic: tou⁵ i⁵ leng¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔu³³²⁻²¹ i⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ ^(ɬ-)lɛŋ⁵⁴⁴/

Noun

土醫生

(Puxian Min) folk doctor (a person who treats people but has no formal medical training)

Synonyms

(Puxian Min) 土醫／土医
(Xianyou Puxian Min) 土下醫／土下医

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “土医生”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 546.