忌喙
Chinese
| avoid as taboo; jealous | beak; to pant | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (忌喙) |
忌 | 喙 | |
| alternative forms | 忌嘴 | ||
Pronunciation
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khî-chhùi / khī-chhùi
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khî-chhùi
- Tâi-lô: khî-tshuì
- Phofsit Daibuun: qizhuix
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰi²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰui⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khī-chhùi
- Tâi-lô: khī-tshuì
- Phofsit Daibuun: qixzhuix
- IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kʰi²²⁻²¹ t͡sʰui²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /kʰi³³⁻¹¹ t͡sʰui¹¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰi³³⁻²¹ t͡sʰui²¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
Verb
忌喙
- (Southern Min) to avoid certain food (as when one is ill); to be on a diet
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 忌口 (“to avoid certain food (because of illness or other reasons)”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 忌口 | |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 忌嘴 |
| Wanrong | 忌嘴 | |
| Xi'an | 忌口 | |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 忌口 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liuzhou | 戒口 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 忌嘴 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 戒口 |
| Hong Kong | 戒口 | |
| Taishan | 戒口 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 忌口 |
| Pingxiang | 戒口 | |
| Hakka | Meixian | 儉嘴 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 戒口 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 忌喙, 禁喙, 噤喙 |
| Quanzhou | 忌喙, 禁喙 | |
| Zhangzhou | 禁喙 | |
| Tainan | 禁喙, 忌喙, 噤喙 | |
| Jieyang | 噤, 噤喙 | |
| Leizhou | 忌喙 | |
| Haikou | 忌喙 | |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 忌口, 戒口 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 忌嘴 |
| Ningbo | 忌嘴 | |