媽祖生

Chinese

		Mazu	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
trad. (媽祖生)		媽祖	生
simp. (妈祖生)		妈祖	生

Pronunciation

Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): Mâ-chú-sâng

(Hailu, HRS): ma^ˋ zu^ˊ sang^ˋ
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ma³ zou³ sa¹ / ma³ zou³ sann¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Má-chó͘-seⁿ / Má-chó͘-siⁿ

Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Mâ-chú-sâng
  - Hakka Romanization System: ma^ˊ zu^ˋ sang^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ma¹ zu³ sang¹
  - Sinological IPA: /ma²⁴ t͡su³¹ saŋ²⁴/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: ma^ˋ zu^ˊ sang^ˋ
  - Sinological IPA: /ma⁵³ t͡su²⁴⁻³³ saŋ⁵³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ma³ zou³ sa¹ [Phonetic: ma⁵ lou⁵ la¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: Mâ-cô-saⁿ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ma⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ ^(t͡s-)lɔu⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ ^(ɬ-)la⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ma³ zou³ sann¹ [Phonetic: ma⁵ lou⁵ na¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ma³³²⁻²¹ ^(t͡s-)lɔu³³²⁻²¹ ^(ɬ-)na⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Má-chó͘-seⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: Má-tsóo-senn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: mafzofsvef
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /mã⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sɔ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ sẽ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Má-chó͘-siⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: Má-tsóo-sinn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: mafzofsvy
  - IPA (Taipei): /mã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sĩ⁴⁴/

Proper noun

媽祖生

(Hokkien, Taiwanese Hakka, Chinese folk religion) the birthday of Mazu on the twenty-third day of the third month of the Chinese calendar

Synonyms

天后誕

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “妈祖生”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 375.