病仙
Chinese
ailment; illness; disease ailment; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect |
immortal | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (病仙) |
病 | 仙 | |
Pronunciation
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pīⁿ-sian / pēⁿ-sian
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pīⁿ-sian
- Tâi-lô: pīnn-sian
- Phofsit Daibuun: pvixsiefn
- IPA (Xiamen): /pĩ²²⁻²¹ siɛn⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /pĩ⁴¹⁻²² siɛn³³/
- IPA (Taipei): /pĩ³³⁻¹¹ siɛn⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Tainan)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pēⁿ-sian
- Tâi-lô: pēnn-sian
- Phofsit Daibuun: pvexsiefn
- IPA (Tainan): /pẽ³³⁻¹¹ siɛn⁴⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɛ̃²²⁻²¹ siɛn⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
Noun
病仙
- (Southern Min) sickly person; someone who gets sick frequently
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 病夫 (“sickly person; invalid”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 病夫 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 病包兒, 病簍子, 病秧子 |
| Taiwan | 病夫 | |
| Harbin | 病包, 病包子, 病簍子, 病秧子 | |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xining | 病漢, 病團團 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 病殼殼, 病坨坨 |
| Guiyang | 病殼殼 | |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 病秧子 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 病君, 病貓, 病壞 |
| Hong Kong | 病貓, 病壞, 病君 | |
| Gan | Lichuan | 病鬼 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 病鬼 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 病丁仔 | |
| Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 病丁, 病丁仔 | |
| Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 病丁, 病丁仔 | |
| Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 病丁 | |
| Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 病丁仔 | |
| Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping) | 病丁 | |
| Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 病丁 | |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 病公 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 病仙, 病丁 |
| Quanzhou | 病仙 | |
| Zhangzhou | 病仙, 病丁 | |
| Tainan | 病仙, 病鬼 | |
| Shantou | 病夫, 病鬼 | |
| Haifeng | 病鬼 | |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 病貓 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 病殼子 |
| Loudi | 病殼子 | |