寒酸

Chinese

		cold; poor; to tremble	sour; sore; ache sour; sore; ache; acid
trad. (寒酸)		寒	酸
simp. ^#(寒酸)		寒	酸

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hánsuān

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄢˊ ㄙㄨㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hon⁴ syun¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): hòn-sôn
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hân-soan

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hánsuān
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄢˊ ㄙㄨㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hánsuan
  - Wade–Giles: han²-suan¹
  - Yale: hán-swān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: harnsuan
  - Palladius: ханьсуань (xanʹsuanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xän³⁵ su̯än⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: hon⁴ syun¹
  - Yale: hòhn syūn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hon⁴ syn¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: hon⁴ xun¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːn²¹ syːn⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
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    寒暄
    寒酸
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hòn-sôn
  - Hakka Romanization System: hon^ˇ son^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: hon² son¹
  - Sinological IPA: /hon¹¹ son²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hân-soan
  - Tâi-lô: hân-suan
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hansoafn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /han²⁴⁻²² suan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /han²⁴⁻²² suan³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /han¹³⁻²² suan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /han²⁴⁻¹¹ suan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /han²³⁻³³ suan⁴⁴/

Adjective

寒酸

shabby and miserable (usually of a poor scholar)
poverty-stricken; poor

Derived terms

寒酸相

Noun

寒酸

(archaic) poor scholar
- 寒酸忽地上金堦，立看許多滲瀨。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
  寒酸忽地上金阶，立看许多渗濑。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]
  From: 1632 CE, Ling Mengchu, Slapping the Table in Amazement II
  Hánsuān hūde shàng jīnjiē, lì kàn xǔduō shènlài. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- 1910, 吳趼人 [Wu Jianren], chapter 45, in 二十年目睹之怪現狀 [Bizarre Happenings Eyewitnessed over Two Decades]:
  
  化了錢養了幾個寒酸倒也罷了，那最奇的，是養了兩班戲子，不過供幾個商家家宴之用，每年要用到三萬多銀子！ [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
  化了钱养了几个寒酸倒也罢了，那最奇的，是养了两班戏子，不过供几个商家家宴之用，每年要用到三万多银子！ [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]
  Huà le qián yǎng le jǐ ge hánsuān dào yě bàliǎo, nà zuì qí de, shì yǎng le liǎng bān xìzi, bùguò gōng jǐ ge shāngjiā jiāyàn zhī yòng, měinián yào yòng dào sān wàn duō yínzi! [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
寒	酸
かん Grade: 3	さん Grade: 5
kan'on	on'yomi

Noun

寒(かん)酸(さん) • (kansan)

suffering in poverty and penury