樹頭

Chinese

		tree	head; (noun suffix)
trad. (樹頭)		樹	頭
simp. (树头)		树	头

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shùtóu

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˋ ㄊㄡˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): syu⁶ tau⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): su-thèu
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ciu⁴ tao²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhiū-thâu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shùtóu
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˋ ㄊㄡˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shùtóu
  - Wade–Giles: shu⁴-tʻou²
  - Yale: shù-tóu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuhtour
  - Palladius: шутоу (šutou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵¹ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: syu⁶ tau⁴
  - Yale: syuh tàuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sy⁶ tau⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: xu⁶ teo⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /syː²² tʰɐu̯²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: su-thèu
  - Hakka Romanization System: su teu^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: su⁴ teu²
  - Sinological IPA: /su⁵⁵ tʰeu̯¹¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ciu⁴ tao²
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: chiu̍-táu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiu⁴² tʰau¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ciu⁴ tao² [Phonetic: ciu¹ lao²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiu⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(tʰ-)lau²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiū-thâu
  - Tâi-lô: tshiū-thâu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chiuxtaau
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiu³³⁻²¹ tʰau²³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiu²²⁻²¹ tʰau¹³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiu⁴¹⁻²² tʰau²⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Singapore): /t͡sʰiu²²⁻²¹ tʰau²⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰiu³³⁻¹¹ tʰau²⁴/

Noun

樹頭

(literary or Southern Min) top of a tree; branches of a tree
(Hakka, Southern Min, Puxian Min) root (of a tree)
(Cantonese, Hakka, Southern Min, Puxian Min) tree stump

Synonyms

(root): 樹根／树根 (shùgēn); (Gan) 樹蔸／树蔸; (Jin) 樹根子／树根子
(tree stump):

Dialectal synonyms of 樹墩 (“tree stump”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		樹墩
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	樹墩兒, 樹墩子
	Taiwan	樹墩
	Harbin	樹疙瘩
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	樹墩
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	桲子墩子
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	樹墩子
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	樹疙蔸
Cantonese	Guangzhou	樹頭, 樹墩
Cantonese	Dongguan	樹頭
Gan	Lichuan	樹蔸
Hakka	Meixian	樹頭
Huizhou	Jixi	樹樁
Jin	Xinzhou	樹圪墩, 圪墩
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	樹蔸
Southern Min	Xiamen	樹頭
	Quanzhou	樹頭
	Zhangzhou	樹頭
	Shantou	樹頭, 樹墩
	Jieyang	樹頭
Puxian Min	Putian	樹頭
Puxian Min	Xianyou	樹頭
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	樹頭
Wu	Suzhou	樹樁
	Danyang	樹樁樁
	Hangzhou	樹樁
	Ningbo	樹樁
	Wenzhou	樹臀兒

Derived terms

樹頭徛予在，毋驚樹尾做風颱 / 树头徛予在，毋惊树尾做风台 (chhiū-thâu khiā hō͘ chāi, m̄ kiaⁿ chhiū-bóe chò-hong-thai) (Min Nan)
死貓吊樹頭，死狗放水流 / 死猫吊树头，死狗放水流
食果子拜樹頭 / 食果子拜树头

Proper noun

樹頭

(～村) Shutou (a village in Wudian, Zaoyang, Xiangyang, Hubei, China)

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “树头”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 105.