生仔

Chinese

		to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw	minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility
simp. and trad. (生仔)		生	仔

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): saang¹ zai²

(Taishan, Wiktionary): sang¹ doi²

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: saang¹ zai²
  - Yale: sāang jái
  - Cantonese Pinyin: saang¹ dzai²
  - Guangdong Romanization: sang¹ zei²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːŋ⁵⁵ t͡sɐi̯³⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: sang¹ doi²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /saŋ³³ tᵘɔi⁵⁵/

Verb

生⫽仔 (verb-object)

(Cantonese) to give birth (to a son or a child of unspecified sex)
生仔好辛苦。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]
saang¹ zai² hou² san¹ fu². [Jyutping]
Giving birth is toilsome.

生完仔要坐月。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]
saang¹ jyun⁴ zai² jiu³ co⁵ jyut^6-2. [Jyutping]
After giving birth, the mother needs to go through postpartum confinement.

生仔定生女？ [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]
saang¹ zai² ding⁶ saang¹ neoi^5-2? [Jyutping]
Was it a boy or a girl?

Synonyms

分娩 (fēnmiǎn)
抾囝 (Hokkien)
抾囡仔 (Hokkien)
洗囝 (sǎi-gṳ̌ing) (Northern Min)
生囝 (Hokkien, Teochew)
生囡仔 (Hokkien)
生娃 (shēngwá) (colloquial)
生娃娃 (Jin)
生嬰仔 / 生婴仔 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
生孩子 (shēng háizi)
生崽 (sang¹ zai³) (Gan)
生產 / 生产 (shēngchǎn)
踮房 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
降倈仔 / 降俫仔 (Hakka)

Coordinate terms

(Cantonese, to a daughter) 生女

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 生仔 – see 鉎仔 (“piece of cast iron; cast iron; pig iron”). (This term is a variant form of 鉎仔).