壁堵

Chinese

		wall; rampart	stop up
simp. and trad. (壁堵)		壁	堵

Pronunciation

Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): bia⁶ dou³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): piah-tó͘

Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: bia⁶ dou³ [Phonetic: bia¹ lou³]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: biā-dô
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pia¹¹⁻⁵⁵ ^(t-)lɔu⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: bia⁶ dou³ [Phonetic: bia¹ lou³]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pia²¹⁻⁵⁵ ^(t-)lɔu³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piah-tó͘
  - Tâi-lô: piah-tóo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: piahdor
  - IPA (Xiamen): /pia(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ tɔ⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pia(ʔ)⁵ tɔ⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pia(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ tɔ⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pia(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ tɔ⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pia(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ tɔ⁴¹/

Noun

壁堵

(Xiamen, Quanzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien, Puxian Min) wall
(Zhangzhou Hokkien) partition wall plasterboard

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 牆 (“wall”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		牆, 壁, 垣墉
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		牆, 牆壁, 牆垣
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	牆
	Taiwan	牆
	Singapore	牆壁
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	牆
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	牆
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	牆
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	牆, 壁頭
	Wuhan	牆
	Guilin	牆
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	牆
Jianghuai Mandarin	Hefei	牆
Cantonese	Guangzhou	牆
	Hong Kong	牆
	Hong Kong (San Tin; Weitou)	籬壆, 牆
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	牆
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	牆
	Taishan	牆
	Dongguan	籬
	Yangjiang	牆
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	牆
	Hepu (Shatian)	牆
	Beihai	牆
	Beihai (Nankang)	牆
	Beihai (Yingpan)	牆
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	牆壁
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	牆
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	牆
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	牆
	Singapore (Guangfu)	牆
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	牆
	Móng Cái	牆
Gan	Nanchang	牆, 壁
Gan	Pingxiang	牆
Hakka	Meixian	牆, 壁
	Yudu	牆
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	壁
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	壁
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	壁
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	壁
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	壁
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	壁
	Hong Kong	牆, 壁頭
	Senai (Huiyang)	牆
Huizhou	Jixi	牆壁
Jin	Taiyuan	牆
Northern Min	Jian'ou	牆
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	牆, 牆壁, 壁
Southern Min	Xiamen	牆, 壁, 壁堵
	Quanzhou	壁堵
	Zhao'an	壁
	Tainan	牆, 壁, 壁堵
	Penang (Hokkien)	牆, 壁
	Singapore (Hokkien)	牆, 壁
	Manila (Hokkien)	壁
	Medan (Hokkien)	壁
	Chaozhou	牆
	Bangkok (Teochew)	牆
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	牆
	Singapore (Teochew)	壁, 牆
Puxian Min	Putian	牆, 壁
	Putian (Donghai, Chengxiang)	牆, 壁
	Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang)	牆
	Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu)	牆, 壁, 牆壁
	Xianyou	牆
	Xianyou (Fengting)	牆
	Xianyou (Youyang)	牆
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	牆
Wu	Shanghai	牆頭, 牆壁
	Shanghai (Chongming)	牆
	Suzhou	牆頭, 牆壁
	Danyang	牆頭
	Hangzhou	牆頭
	Ningbo	牆壁
	Wenzhou	屏牆, 牆
Xiang	Changsha	牆壁, 牆, 壁
	Xiangxiang	牆
	Loudi	壁頭
	Shuangfeng	牆頭, 壁頭

References

“壁堵”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.