耳機

See also: 耳机

Chinese

		ear	machine; opportunity; secret
trad. (耳機)		耳	機
simp. (耳机)		耳	机

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ěrjī

(Zhuyin): ㄦˇ ㄐㄧ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ji⁵ gei¹
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zi³ gi¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): hī-ki / hīⁿ-ki / ní-ki

(Teochew, Peng'im): re² gi¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ěrjī
  - Zhuyin: ㄦˇ ㄐㄧ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ěrji
  - Wade–Giles: êrh³-chi¹
  - Yale: ěr-jī
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eelji
  - Palladius: эрцзи (erczi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ji⁵ gei¹
  - Yale: yíh gēi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ji⁵ gei¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yi⁵ géi¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː¹³ kei̯⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zi³ gi¹ [Phonetic: zi⁵ gi¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: cî-gi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ ki⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zi³ gi¹ [Phonetic: zi⁵ gi¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si³³²⁻²¹ ki⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Penang)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hī-ki
  - Tâi-lô: hī-ki
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hixky
  - IPA (Taipei): /hi³³⁻¹¹ ki⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Penang): /hi²¹ ki³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hi²²⁻²¹ ki⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hīⁿ-ki
  - Tâi-lô: hīnn-ki
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hvixky
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hĩ³³⁻²¹ ki⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ní-ki
  - Tâi-lô: ní-ki
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ny'ky
  - IPA (Xiamen): /nĩ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ki⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /nĩ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ki³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: re² gi¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: jṳ́ ki
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /d͡zɯ⁵²⁻³⁵ ki³³/

Noun

耳機

headphones; earphones
頭戴式耳機／头戴式耳机 ― tóudàishì ěrjī ― headset
telephone receiver

Synonyms

(earphones):

Dialectal synonyms of 耳機 (“earphones; headphones”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		耳機, 耳機子, 耳塞 earphones
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	耳機, 耳塞 earphones
Northeastern Mandarin	Singapore	耳機
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	耳機子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	耳機, 耳筒
Cantonese	Hong Kong	耳機, 耳筒, 耳塞 earphones
Southern Min	Tainan	耳機
Southern Min	Penang (Hokkien)	耳機
Puxian Min	Putian	耳機
Puxian Min	Xianyou	耳機

(telephone receiver):

Dialectal synonyms of 受話器 (“telephone receiver”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		受話器, 受話機, 聽筒, 耳機 Mainland China
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	耳機子
Cantonese	Hong Kong	聽筒
Southern Min	Xiamen	聽筒, 耳機

Descendants

→ Bouyei: erjjiy
→ Zhuang: wjgih

References

“耳機”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
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) 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 45.