火母

Chinese

		fire; angry; fierce fire; angry; fierce; fiery; thriving	female; mother
trad. (火母)		火	母
simp. ^#(火母)		火	母

Pronunciation

Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): huei³ bo³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hér-bú / hé-bú / hóe-bó

Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: huei³ bo³ [Phonetic: huei⁵ o³]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hôi-beô
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huei⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ ^(p-)o⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: huei³ bo³ [Phonetic: huei⁵ wo³]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huei³³²⁻²¹ ^(p-)βo³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hér-bú
  - Tâi-lô: hér-bú
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hə⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bu⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hé-bú
  - Tâi-lô: hé-bú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hefbuo
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /he⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bu⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Tainan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hóe-bó
  - Tâi-lô: hué-bó
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoefboir
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hue⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bɤ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Tainan): /hue⁵³⁻⁵⁵ bɤ⁵³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hue⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bo⁵³/

Noun

火母

(Hokkien, Puxian Min) tinder; source of a fire

Synonyms

火種／火种 (huǒzhǒng)

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), “火母”, 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 290.