眾牲

Chinese

		numerous; multitude; crowd	domestic animal
trad. (眾牲/衆牲)		眾/衆	牲
simp. (众牲)		众	牲
alternative forms		眾生／众生

Pronunciation

Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zoeng¹ sa¹
Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ¹tson₅-san₁

Puxian Min
- (Putian, Jiangkou, Nanri)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zoeng¹ sa¹ [Phonetic: zoeng⁵ na¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ce̤ng-saⁿ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sœŋ⁵³³⁻¹¹ ^(ɬ-)na⁵³³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai, Jiading)
  - Wugniu: ¹tson₅-san₁
  - MiniDict: tson^去 san^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹tson₂-san₁
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡soŋ⁵⁵ sã²¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Jiading): /t͡soŋ⁵⁵ sã²¹/

Noun

眾牲 (Puxian Min, Wu)

livestock; domestic animals
儂搿種人啊，真正是隻眾牲！ [Shanghainese, trad.]
侬搿种人啊，真正是只众牲！ [Shanghainese, simp.]
⁶non ⁸geq-tson ⁶gnin ⁰gha ¹tsen-tsen ⁶zy ⁷tsaq ¹tson-san [Wugniu]
You're totally the type of person that's just an animal!
(derogatory) beast; bugger; contemptible person

Synonyms

家畜 (jiāchù)
牲口 (shēngkǒu)
牲畜 (shēngchù)
畜生
精牲 (Hokkien, Teochew)
豬狗精牲 / 猪狗精牲 (Hokkien)
頭牲 / 头牲 (Hakka, Hokkien)

(brute): 畜生 (chùsheng); (Hakka) 頭牲仔／头牲仔; (Hokkien, Teochew) 精牲; (Wu) 豬頭三／猪头三 (zhūtóusān); (Xiang) 黃噠眼／黄哒眼, 黃色畜生／黄色畜生

References

李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “440 牲口”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 334.