激死
Chinese
Etymology 1
| to infuriate | to die; impassable; uncrossable to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (激死) | 激 | 死 | |
| simp. #(激死) | 激 | 死 | |
Pronunciation
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: gik1 sei2
- Yale: gīk séi
- Cantonese Pinyin: gik7 sei2
- Guangdong Romanization: gig1 séi2
- Sinological IPA (key): /kɪk̚⁵ sei̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Verb
激死
- (Cantonese, intransitive) to be extremely annoyed; to be angry; to be mad
- (Cantonese, transitive) to annoy; to anger; to madden
Synonyms
Etymology 2
| to submerge in water | to die; impassable; uncrossable to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (激死) | 激 | 死 | |
| simp. #(激死) | 激 | 死 | |
Pronunciation
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kek--sí
- Tâi-lô: kik--sí
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiak--sí
- Tâi-lô: kiak--sí
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: gêg4 si2
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kek sí
- Sinological IPA (key): /kek̚²⁻⁴ si⁵²⁻²¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
Verb
激死
- (Hokkien) to die from suffocation
- (Southern Min) to drown
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 淹死 (“to drown (intransitive)”) [map]
References
- Lim Hiong Seng (1886) “A Dictionary of some of the more important words in the Swatow dialect”, in Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press