紅毛字

Chinese

		red hair	letter; symbol; character letter; symbol; character; word
trad. (紅毛字)		紅毛	字
simp. (红毛字)		红毛	字

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hóngmáozì

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄥˊ ㄇㄠˊ ㄗˋ
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ang² mung² zi⁵ / ang² mor² zi⁵
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): âng-mô͘-jī

(Teochew, Peng'im): ang⁵ mo⁵ ri⁷

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hóngmáozì
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄥˊ ㄇㄠˊ ㄗˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hóngmáozìh
  - Wade–Giles: hung²-mao²-tzŭ⁴
  - Yale: húng-máu-dz̀
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: horngmautzyh
  - Palladius: хунмаоцзы (xunmaoczy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xʊŋ³⁵ mɑʊ̯³⁵ t͡sz̩⁵¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ang² mung² zi⁵ [Phonetic: ang⁵ mung⁴ ni⁵]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: áng-mńg-cī
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /aŋ¹³⁻¹¹ muŋ¹³⁻⁴² ^(t͡s-)ni¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ang² mor² zi⁵ [Phonetic: ang⁵ mor⁴ li⁵]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /aŋ²⁴⁻²¹ mɒ²⁴⁻⁴² ^(t͡s-)li²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Penang)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: âng-mô͘-jī
  - Tâi-lô: âng-môo-jī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: angmoji
  - IPA (Penang): /aŋ²³⁻²¹ mɔ²³⁻²¹ d͡zi²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ang⁵ mo⁵ ri⁷
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: âng mô jī
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /aŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ mo⁵⁵⁻¹¹ d͡zi¹¹/

Noun

紅毛字

(obsolete or dialectal) the Latin alphabet
- 習紅毛字，橫書為行，自左而右[…] [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  习红毛字，横书为行，自左而右[…] [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: 諸羅縣志
  xí hóngmáozì, héngshū wèi xíng, zì zuǒ ér yòu […] [Pinyin]
  The Latin alphabet is written horizontally from left to right.
(Penang Hokkien) the English language
(Puxian Min) unrecognizable writing

See also

紅毛話／红毛话

References

Chia, Caroline, Hoogervorst, Tom, editors (2021), “Chapter 5 Native Lexical Innovation in Penang Hokkien: Thinking beyond Rojak”, in Sinophone Southeast Asia: Sinitic Voices across the Southern Seas (Chinese Overseas: History, Literature, and Society; 20 [Open Access])‎^[1], Brill, →ISBN, page 169
莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “红毛字”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 8.