煞尾
Chinese
baleful; bring to a stop; very baleful; bring to a stop; very; decrease; tighten |
tail | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (煞尾) | 煞 | 尾 | |
| simp. #(煞尾) | 煞 | 尾 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): saat3 mei5
- Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): sad5 mi1
- Northern Min (KCR): suŏi-mṳě
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sua6 buei3
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): soah-bér / soah-bé / soah-bóe
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: shāwěi
- Zhuyin: ㄕㄚ ㄨㄟˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: shawěi
- Wade–Giles: sha1-wei3
- Yale: shā-wěi
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shawoei
- Palladius: шавэй (šavɛj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʂä⁵⁵ weɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: saat3 mei5
- Yale: saat méih
- Cantonese Pinyin: saat8 mei5
- Guangdong Romanization: sad3 méi5
- Sinological IPA (key): /saːt̚³ mei̯¹³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Hakka
- Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
- Kienning Colloquial Romanized: suŏi-mṳě
- Sinological IPA (key): /suɛ²⁴ myɛ²¹/
- (Jian'ou)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: sua6 buei3 [Phonetic: sua1 uei3]
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: suā-bôi
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɬua¹¹⁻⁵⁵ (p-)uei⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: sua6 buei3 [Phonetic: sua1 wuei3]
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɬua²¹⁻⁵⁵ (p-)βuei³³²/
- (Putian)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soah-bér
- Tâi-lô: suah-bér
- IPA (Quanzhou): /sua(ʔ)⁵ bə⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Jinjiang, Philippines)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soah-bé
- Tâi-lô: suah-bé
- Phofsit Daibuun: soahbea
- IPA (Jinjiang, Philippines): /sua(ʔ)⁵ be⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /sua(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ be⁵³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou, Tainan)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soah-bóe
- Tâi-lô: suah-bué
- Phofsit Daibuun: soahboea
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /sua(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ bue⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou, Tainan): /sua(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ bue⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
Verb
煞尾
- to finish off; to round off; to wind up; to come to an end
Synonyms
- 收尾 (shōuwěi)
Noun
煞尾
- final stage; end; ending
- conclusion or ending paragraph of an article
- (theater) last of a sequence of songs in traditional northern drama
- (Philippine Hokkien) youngest child
Synonyms
- (youngest son):
Dialectal synonyms of 小兒子 (“youngest son”) [map]
See also
Adjective
煞尾
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 最後 (“the last; in the end”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 最後 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 最後 |
| Singapore | 最後 | |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 最後 |
| Singapore (Guangfu) | 最後 | |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 落尾, 煞尾 |
| Quanzhou | 落尾, 煞尾 | |
| Jinjiang | 煞尾, 尾尾 | |
| Zhangzhou | 落尾, 煞尾 | |
| Tainan | 煞尾, 最後 GT, 落尾手 GT, 上尾 GT | |
| Penang (Hokkien) | 尾 | |
| Singapore (Hokkien) | 落尾 | |
| Manila (Hokkien) | 落尾 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 壓末, 着末腳, 最後, 拉末 |
| Ningbo | 壓末, 頂壓末, 壓煞 | |
| Note | GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified) | |
Derived terms
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), “煞尾”, 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 515.