茈雞仔
Chinese
| Lithospermum officinale; water chestnut | fowl; chicken | minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (茈雞仔/茈鷄仔) | 茈 | 雞/鷄 | 仔 | |
| simp. (茈鸡仔) | 茈 | 鸡 | 仔 | |
| alternative forms | 子雞仔／子鸡仔 譾雞仔／谫鸡仔 | |||
Pronunciation
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chíⁿ-koe-á
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chíⁿ-koe-á
- Tâi-lô: tsínn-kue-á
- Phofsit Daibuun: cvy'koe'ar
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sĩ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kue³³ a⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sĩ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kue⁴⁴⁻²² a⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
Noun
茈雞仔
- (Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien, originally) chick; newly hatched chicken
- (Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien, figurative) someone young, immature, or lacking in experience
- (Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien) novice; somebody new to a job
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 小雞 (“chick; young chicken”) [map]