地牛

Chinese

		earth; ground; field earth; ground; field; place; land; (subor. part. adverbial); ‑ly	ox; cow; bull
trad. (地牛)		地	牛
simp. ^#(地牛)		地	牛

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dìniú

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˋ ㄋㄧㄡˊ
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): de⁵ gu²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tē-gû / tōe-gû

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dìniú
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˋ ㄋㄧㄡˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dìnióu
  - Wade–Giles: ti⁴-niu²
  - Yale: dì-nyóu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dihniou
  - Palladius: диню (dinju)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti⁵¹ ni̯oʊ̯³⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: de⁵ gu² [Phonetic: de⁵ u²]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: dā̤-gú
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /te¹¹ ^(k-)u¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: de⁵ gu² [Phonetic: de⁵ u²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /te²¹ ^(k-)u²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Singapore, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tē-gû
  - Tâi-lô: tē-gû
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dexguu
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /te³³⁻²¹ ɡu²³/
  - IPA (Singapore): /te²²⁻²¹ ɡu²⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōe-gû
  - Tâi-lô: tuē-gû
  - Phofsit Daibuun: doexguu
  - IPA (Taipei): /tue³³⁻¹¹ ɡu²⁴/

Noun

地牛

(southern China, mythology) a bull who lives under the earth and causes earthquakes upon stirring
(Singapore Hokkien) banded bullfrog (Kaloula pulchra)
(Singapore, historical) inspector who raids unlicensed hawkers
Hypernym: 稽查員 / 稽查员 (jīcháyuán)

跑地牛 ― pǎo dìniú ― to evade inspectors

Derived terms

地牛反肩
地牛換肩 / 地牛换肩
地牛搖頭 / 地牛摇头
地牛發威 / 地牛发威
地牛翻身 (dìniú fānshēn)
地牛躝側 / 地牛𨅬侧
地牛車轉身 / 地牛车转身
地牛轉側 / 地牛转侧
地牛轉肩 / 地牛转肩
地牛過肩 / 地牛过肩

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), “地牛”, 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 137.