散仔
Chinese
adjourn; scatter; leisurely adjourn; scatter; leisurely; loosen; powdered medicine; to scatter; to come loose |
minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (散仔) | 散 | 仔 | |
| simp. #(散仔) | 散 | 仔 | |
Pronunciation
- Cantonese
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sàn-á
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: saan2 zai2
- Yale: sáan jái
- Cantonese Pinyin: saan2 dzai2
- Guangdong Romanization: san2 zei2
- Sinological IPA (key): /saːn³⁵ t͡sɐi̯³⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: lhan2 doi2
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɬan⁵⁵ tᵘɔi⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sàn-á
- Tâi-lô: sàn-á
- Phofsit Daibuun: safn'ar
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /san²¹⁻⁵³ a⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
Noun
散仔
- (Cantonese) temporary worker; low-level member (of a gang or an organization)
- (Siyi Yue) (young) bachelor
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien) pauper; poor wretch; penniless good-for-nothing
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 單身漢 (“bachelor”) [map]
Dialectal synonyms of 窮人 (“poor person”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 窮人, 貧民 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 窮人, 窮鬼, 窮光蛋 |
| Harbin | 窮光蛋 | |
| Singapore | 窮人 | |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 窮人, 窮光蛋, 窮棒棒子 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 窮人, 窮光蛋, 溜光蛋, 溜光蛋兒 |
| Wanrong | 窮骨頭 | |
| Xi'an | 窮人, 窮漢, 窮光蛋 | |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 窮骨頭 |
| Liuzhou | 窮鬼 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 窮人, 窮鬼 |
| Hong Kong | 窮人, 窮鬼 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 窮人 |
| Lichuan | 窮搭仔 | |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 窮苦人 |
| Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 窮苦人 | |
| Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 窮苦人 | |
| Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 窮苦人 | |
| Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 窮苦人 | |
| Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 散人 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 窮人 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 窮儂 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 艱苦儂, 宋凶儂, 赤囝 |
| Quanzhou | 艱苦儂, 赤囝 | |
| Zhangzhou | 艱苦儂, 散仔, 阿散仔, 赤囝 | |
| New Taipei (Sanxia) | 散凶儂 | |
| Kaohsiung | 散凶儂, 散食儂 | |
| Yilan | 散凶儂, 散赤儂 | |
| Taichung | 散赤儂 | |
| Tainan | 散凶儂, 散赤儂, 散鬼 | |
| Hsinchu | 散赤儂 | |
| Kinmen | 散赤儂 | |
| Penghu (Magong) | 散赤儂, 艱苦儂, 歹命儂 | |
| Jieyang | 磽囝, 磽囝儂 | |
| Leizhou | 窮儂, 窮鬼 | |
| Haikou | 窮儂 | |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 窮佬, 窮人, 窮鬼 |
| Wu | Danyang | 窮人, 窮光蛋, 窮塌皮 |
| Hangzhou | 窮哥哥兒, 窮鬼 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 窮人子 |
Derived terms
- 散仔館 / 散仔馆