恰恰

Chinese

Etymology 1

		exactly; just	exactly; just
simp. and trad. (恰恰)		恰	恰

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qiàqià

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄚˋ ㄑㄧㄚˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hap¹ hap¹
Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): kab⁴ kab⁴
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷haq-haq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qiàqià
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄚˋ ㄑㄧㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ciàcià
  - Wade–Giles: chʻia⁴-chʻia⁴
  - Yale: chyà-chyà
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiahchiah
  - Palladius: цяця (cjacja)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ä⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕʰi̯ä⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: hap¹ hap¹
  - Yale: hāp hāp
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hap⁷ hap⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: heb¹ heb¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐp̚⁵ hɐp̚⁵/
Southern Min
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: kab⁴ kab⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khap khap
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰap̚²⁻⁴ kʰap̚²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁷haq-haq
  - MiniDict: hah^入 hah
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴haq-haq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /haʔ³³ haʔ⁴⁴/

Adverb

恰恰

exactly; just; precisely

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 恰巧 (“by chance; as it happens”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		會, 適
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		恰巧, 恰好, 恰恰, 碰巧, 剛好, 剛巧, 正好, 正巧, 趕巧, 湊巧
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	正好, 碰巧, 可可兒的
	Langfang	正好兒
	Harbin	正巧
Jilu Mandarin	Tangshan	碰巧兒
	Cangzhou	正巧兒
	Baoding	碰巧
	Shijiazhuang	正巧兒
	Jinan	正好, 剛好, 碰巧, 湊巧
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	趕巧兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	碰巧, 湊巧
	Daming	正好兒
	Wanrong	剛, 妙, 可妙, 湊妙
	Xi'an	正好, 剛好, 剛好兒, 妙的
	Xining	正好
	Xuzhou	驗好, 驗好兒, 驗巧, 適巧
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	湊巧, 恰巧
	Lanzhou	將巧
	Ürümqi	剛好, 正好, 剛巧, 正巧, 碰巧, 正, 將好兒
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	端端, 剛好, 將好, 恰好, 恰恰
	Wuhan	正巧, 恰恰, 神神
	Guiyang	恰巧, 湊巧, 碰巧
	Kunming	剛好, 恰恰的
	Liuzhou	扣到, 扣扣, 正, 碰巧
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	正, 將將
	Yangzhou	剛好, 剛剛好, 齊巧, 正好, 將好
	Nantong	碰巧
	Hefei	正好, 將好, 碰巧
Cantonese	Guangzhou	碰啱, 撞啱, 湊啱, 啱好, 啱, 啱啱, 啱啱好, 啱啱線
	Hong Kong	咁啱, 撞啱, 碰啱, 啱啱
	Macau	啱啱
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	啱啱好
	Foshan	啱好
	Foshan (Sanshui)	啱啱好
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	啱啱
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	啱算
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	啱算
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	啱啱
	Taishan	碰啱
	Heshan (Yayao)	啱啱好
	Dongguan	啱先
	Yangjiang	哏好, 啱
	Xinyi	啱好, 啱啱
Gan	Nanchang	合適, 碰巧
	Lichuan	剛好
	Pingxiang	嵌嵌, 嵌嵌仔, 嵌好, 合式, 緊光
Hakka	Meixian	啱好, 啱啱
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	啱啱
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	啱算
	Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua)	啱啱
	Yudu	將好, 剛好
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	堵好, 堵堵好
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	堵好, 堵堵好
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	堵好, 堵堵好
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	堵好, 堵堵好
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	堵好, 堵堵好
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	堵好, 堵堵好
Huizhou	Jixi	剛好
Jin	Taiyuan	剛好, 可可底, 正好, 正巧
	Xinzhou	正好, 嵌好, 嵌好好兒, 嵌嵌兒, 可好, 可好好兒, 可可兒
	Zhangjiakou	剛巧
	Handan	正好兒
Northern Min	Jian'ou	頃頃好
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	正正好, 堵堵好
Southern Min	Xiamen	對對, 拄好, 拄仔好, 注死, 湊拄歁, 千千, 千拄千, 拄巧, 拄拄, 拄拄仔好
	Quanzhou	對對, 拄好, 拄仔好, 湊拄歁, 千千, 千拄千, 拄千
	Zhangzhou	對對, 拄好, 拄仔好, 拄欸好, 注死, 拄, 死病, 湊拄歁, 湊拄歁仔, 湊巧, 湊歁, 湊歁仔, 千千, 千拄千, 拄仔, 拄拄, 拄拄仔
	Kaohsiung	拄好
	Yilan	拄好
	Changhua (Lukang)	拄好
	Taichung	拄好
	Taichung (Wuqi)	拄好
	Tainan	拄好
	Taitung	拄好
	Hsinchu	拄仔好
	Penghu (Magong)	拄好
	Zhangping	堵堵, 堵好, 堵湊
	Chaozhou	堵堵, 堵好
	Shantou	湊巧, 恰巧, 堵堵, 啱
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	啱
	Jieyang	堵堵, 堵遇, 合合, 合昘, 合嘬, 啱, 啱啱
	Puning	合事, 合合, 合昘
	Haikou	啱, 啱啱
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	正好
Wu	Shanghai	剛, 齊巧, 正好, 正巧, 剛巧, 剛剛, 剛正好, 剛剛好, 正正好好, 貼正, 貼正好, 恰好, 貼准, 恰恰叫, 恰恰好, 眼眼叫, 眼眼調, 扣揢扣, 碰巧, 湊巧, 齊頭 dated, 齊頭好 dated
	Shanghai (Chuansha, Pudong)	剛, 剛剛
	Shanghai (Fengxian)	剛剛好
	Shanghai (Jinshan)	剛剛好, 正好子
	Shanghai (Qingpu)	剛剛好, 恰好
	Shanghai (Chongming)	正好, 剛, 剛剛
	Suzhou	剛巧, 剛正, 剛好, 齊巧, 齊頭, 眼眼調
	Wuxi	齊頭數, 齊巧
	Danyang	湊巧, 齊巧, 剛好, 正好, 齊巧好
	Hangzhou	剛巧, 正巧, 齊巧
	Ningbo	剛剛, 扣好, 扣扣, 候扣, 眼眼叫, 齊巧
	Wenzhou	恰兩恰兒, 恰恰兒, 扣扣, 扣門兒
	Jinhua	頂對, 正好, 正好兒, 剛好
Xiang	Changsha	剛合, 如勢, 獨如, 正好, 恰好
	Loudi	恰好, 正好
	Shuangfeng	正好

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偏好
剛合 / 刚合 (jian¹ ho⁶) (Xiang)
剛好 / 刚好 (gānghǎo)
剛巧 / 刚巧 (gāngqiǎo)
千千 (Hokkien)
千拄千 (Hokkien)
嚴剛 / 严刚 (ngan² jian¹) (Xiang)
嚴合 / 严合 (ngan² ho⁶) (Xiang)
堵堵好 (Hakka)
堵好 (Hakka)
如勢 / 如势 (y² shr⁴) (Xiang)
恰好 (qiàhǎo)
恰巧 (qiàqiǎo)
拄仔好 (Hokkien)
拄千 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
拄好 (Hokkien)
拄搪 (Hokkien)
拄䢢 (Hokkien)
會 / 会 (literary)
正好 (zhènghǎo)
正巧 (zhèngqiǎo)
湊巧 / 凑巧 (còuqiǎo)
湊拄歁 / 凑拄歁 (Hokkien)
湊拄歁仔 / 凑拄歁仔 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
湊歁 / 凑歁 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
碰巧 (pèngqiǎo)
趕巧 / 赶巧 (gǎnqiǎo)
䢢拄䢢 (Hokkien)
適 / 适
適值 / 适值 (shìzhí) (literary)
頃頃好 / 顷顷好 (ka̿ing-ka̿ing-hǎu) (Northern Min)

Etymology 2

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (恰恰)		恰	恰

From English cha-cha.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qiàqià

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄚˋ ㄑㄧㄚˋ
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhiah-chhiah

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qiàqià
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄚˋ ㄑㄧㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ciàcià
  - Wade–Giles: chʻia⁴-chʻia⁴
  - Yale: chyà-chyà
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiahchiah
  - Palladius: цяця (cjacja)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ä⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕʰi̯ä⁵¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiah-chhiah
  - Tâi-lô: tshiah-tshiah
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chiahchiaq
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰia(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ t͡sʰiaʔ³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰia(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ t͡sʰiaʔ³²/

Noun

恰恰

(～舞) (dance) cha-cha

Synonyms

(Cantonese) 查查 (caa4 caa4-2)