硬柴

Chinese

		hard; stiff; strong hard; stiff; strong; firm	firewood
trad. (硬柴)		硬	柴
simp. ^#(硬柴)		硬	柴

Pronunciation

Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): nge⁵ ca² / ngi⁵ ca²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ngē-chhâ / ngī-chhâ
Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁶ngan-za₆ / ²ngan₆-za₂

Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: nge⁵ ca² [Phonetic: nge⁵ la²]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ngā̤-chá
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋe¹¹ ^(t͡sʰ-)la¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ngi⁵ ca² [Phonetic: ngi⁵ na²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋi²¹ ^(t͡sʰ-)na²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ngē-chhâ
  - Tâi-lô: ngē-tshâ
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ngexzhaa
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ŋẽ³³⁻²¹ t͡sʰa²³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ngī-chhâ
  - Tâi-lô: ngī-tshâ
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ngixzhaa
  - IPA (Taipei): /ŋĩ³³⁻¹¹ t͡sʰa²⁴/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶ngan-za₆
  - MiniDict: ngan^去 za^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³ngan-za₃
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ŋã²² za⁴⁴/
- (Northern: Suzhou, Changzhou)
  - Wugniu: ²ngan₆-za₂
  - MiniDict: ngan^去 za^平
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /ŋã²² zɑ³³/
  - Sinological IPA (Changzhou): /ŋaŋ¹¹ za³³/

Noun

硬柴

(Wu) firewood
(Puxian Min) hardwood

Synonyms

(firewood):

劈柴
木柴 (mùchái)
木樵 (Hakka)
柴火 (cháihuo)
柴禾 (cháihé)
柴草 (cháicǎo) (Hokkien or literary)
火樵 (hǒ-châu) (Northern Min)

(hardwood): 硬木 (yìngmù)

Adjective

硬柴

(Hokkien) not flexible (like a stick or rod); rough and rigid
(Hokkien) lacking grace and flexibility (of body movements); stiff and tense

References

小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “硬柴”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC, page 340