白紙烏字

Chinese

		blank sheet of paper	a crow; black; not a crow; black; not; empty; void	letter; symbol; character letter; symbol; character; word
trad. (白紙烏字)		白紙	烏	字
simp. (白纸乌字)		白纸	乌	字

Pronunciation

Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pha̍k-chṳ́-vû-sṳ
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ba⁷ zyor³ ou¹ zi⁵ / ba⁷ zya³ ou¹ zi⁵
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pe̍h-chóa-o͘-lī / pe̍h-chóa-o͘-jī

Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pha̍k-chṳ́-vû-sṳ
  - Hakka Romanization System: pag zii^ˋ vu^ˊ sii
  - Hagfa Pinyim: pag⁶ zi³ vu¹ si⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /pʰak̚⁵ t͡sɨ³¹ vu²⁴⁻¹¹ sɨ⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ba⁷ zyor³ ou¹ zi⁵ [Phonetic: ba⁵ lyor³ ou² li⁵]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ba̍h-ciô̤-o-cī
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa¹³⁻¹¹ ^(t͡s-)lyɒ⁴⁵³ ɔu⁵³³⁻¹³ ^(t͡s-)li¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ba⁷ zya³ ou¹ zi⁵ [Phonetic: ba⁵ lya³ ou² li⁵]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa²⁴⁻²¹ ^(t͡s-)lya³³² ɔu⁵⁴⁴⁻²⁴ ^(t͡s-)li²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pe̍h-chóa-o͘-lī
  - Tâi-lô: pe̍h-tsuá-oo-lī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: peqzoafoli
  - IPA (Xiamen): /pe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ t͡sua⁵³ ɔ⁴⁴⁻²² li²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pe(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sua⁵³ ɔ⁴⁴⁻³³ li³³/
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pe̍h-chóa-o͘-jī
  - Tâi-lô: pe̍h-tsuá-oo-jī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: peqzoafoji
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ t͡sua⁴¹ ɔ⁴⁴⁻³³ zi³³/

Idiom

白紙烏字

(Hakka, Hokkien, Puxian Min) (written) in black and white
- 2017, 陳志寧, “扚耳公”, in 教育部電子報‎^[1], number 779, 閱讀越懂閩客語:
  
  該愛仰般來相處，儕儕都有一定个規矩，這兜規矩從來就無白紙烏字寫出來。 [Sixian Hakka, trad.]
  该爱仰般来相处，侪侪都有一定个规矩，这兜规矩从来就无白纸乌字写出来。 [Sixian Hakka, simp.]
  Ke oi ngióng-pân lòi siông-chhú, sà-sà tû yû yit-thin ke kûi-kí, liá-têu kûi-kí chhiùng-lòi chhiu mò pha̍k-chṳ́-vû-sṳ siá chhut-lòi. [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ]
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 白紙黑字 (“in black and white”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		白紙黑字
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	白紙黑字兒
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	白紙黑字
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	白紙黑字兒
Cantonese	Hong Kong	白紙黑字
Hakka	Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian)	白紙烏字
Southern Min	Xiamen	白紙烏字, 白紙寫烏字
	Quanzhou	白紙寫烏字
	Zhangzhou	白紙寫烏字
	Tainan	白紙寫烏字
Puxian Min	Putian	白紙烏字
Wu	Shanghai	白紙黑字, 黑筆落垃白紙浪