起早坐暗
Chinese
| to wake up early; early morning | to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, aeroplane, etc.) | dark; gloomy; hidden dark; gloomy; hidden; secret | ||
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| trad. (起早坐暗) | 起早 | 坐 | 暗 | |
| simp. #(起早坐暗) | 起早 | 坐 | 暗 | |
| Literally: “get up early and still sit up when it's late”. | ||||
Pronunciation
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khí-chá-chē-àm
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khí-chá-chē-àm
- Tâi-lô: khí-tsá-tsē-àm
- Phofsit Daibuun: qyzafzexaxm
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sa⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡se³³⁻²¹ am²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /kʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sa⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡se³³⁻¹¹ am¹¹/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
Idiom
起早坐暗
Synonyms
References
- 東方孝義 (TŌHŌ Takayoshi) (1931) “起早坐暗”, in 臺日新辭書 [New Taiwanese–Japanese dictionary] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: 臺灣警察協會, page 157
- 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “起早坐暗”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary][1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC