穿針

Chinese

		to bore through; pierce; perforate to bore through; pierce; perforate; penetrate; pass through; to dress; to wear; to put on; to thread	needle; pin; injection
trad. (穿針/穿鍼)		穿	針/鍼
simp. (穿针)		穿	针

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chuānzhēn

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄢㄓㄣ
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): cuei¹ zieng¹ / cuai¹ zieng¹ / cuei¹ zeng¹ / cuinn¹ zieng¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chuānzhēn
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄢㄓㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chuanjhen
  - Wade–Giles: chʻuan¹-chên¹
  - Yale: chwān-jēn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuanjen
  - Palladius: чуаньчжэнь (čuanʹčžɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂən⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: cuei¹ zieng¹ [Phonetic: cuei⁵ zieng¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: choiⁿ-ciang
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰuei⁵³³⁻¹¹ t͡siɛŋ⁵³³/
- (Jiangkou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: cuai¹ zieng¹ [Phonetic: cuai⁵ zieng¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰuɐi⁵³³⁻¹¹ t͡siɛŋ⁵³³/
- (Nanri)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: cuei¹ zeng¹ [Phonetic: cuei⁵ leng¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰuei⁵³³⁻¹¹ ^(t͡s-)le̞ŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou, Youyang)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: cuinn¹ zieng¹ [Phonetic: cuinn⁵ zieng¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰũĩ⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ t͡siɛŋ⁵⁴⁴/
- (Fengting)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: cuinn¹ zieng¹ [Phonetic: cuinn⁵ zieng¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰũĩ⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ t͡sieŋ⁵⁴⁴/

Verb

穿針

to thread a needle

Synonyms

紉針／纫针 (rènzhēn)

Derived terms

穿針引線／穿针引线 (chuānzhēnyǐnxiàn)
引線穿針／引线穿针

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) “821 穿针（动宾）”, 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 372.