踅街

Chinese

	to walk around; turn back midway; walk with one leg	street
simp. and trad. (踅街)	踅	街
alternative forms	迺街
Literally: “to go around the streets”.

Pronunciation

Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): se̍h-koe / se̍rh-koe / se̍h-ke

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: se̍h-koe
  - Tâi-lô: se̍h-kue
  - Phofsit Daibuun: seqkoef
  - IPA (Taipei): /se(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ kue⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /se(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ kue⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: se̍rh-koe
  - Tâi-lô: se̍rh-kue
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sə(ʔ)²⁴⁻² kue³³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Penang)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: se̍h-ke
  - Tâi-lô: se̍h-ke
  - Phofsit Daibuun: seqkef
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /se(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ ke⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Penang): /se(ʔ)⁴⁻³ ke³³/
  - IPA (Tainan): /se(ʔ)⁴⁻¹ ke⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /se(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ ke⁴⁴/

Verb

踅街

(Hokkien, Zhao'an Hakka) to stroll around the streets; to loiter on the street; to window-shop; to go shopping

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 逛街 (“to stroll around the streets; to window-shop”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		逛街
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	逛街, 壓馬路
	Harbin	逛街, 壓馬路
	Singapore	逛街
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	逛街
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	逛街
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	壓馬路
Central Plains Mandarin	Xining	街上浪去
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	轉街
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	浪街, 逛街
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	擺街街 childish
	Wuhan	轉街
	Guiyang	逛街, 竄街
	Liuzhou	走街, 遊街, 走馬路
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	逛馬路
Cantonese	Guangzhou	行街, 蕩街, 測街, 逛街, 踱街
	Hong Kong	行街, 行街街 childish
	Taishan	行街, 蕩街
	Kaiping (Chikan)	行街
	Dongguan	行街, 蕩街
	Penang (Guangfu)	行街, 嫽街
	Singapore (Guangfu)	行街
Gan	Nanchang	蕩街
Gan	Lichuan	蕩街
Hakka	Meixian	行街, 亍街, 遶街
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	遶街, 逛街, 遊街
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	遶街, 亍街, 遊街
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	遶街, 逛街, 遊街
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	亍街路, 遶街路, 遊街
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	遶街, 逛街, 遊街
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	遶街, 踅街, 遊街
Jin	Taiyuan	逛大街, 壓馬路
Jin	Xinzhou	上街圪轉
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	犖街
Southern Min	Xiamen	遨街, 踅街路, 踅街
	Quanzhou	踅街路, 踅街
	Zhangzhou	踅街路, 踅街
	Tainan	踅街
	Penang (Hokkien)	踅街
	Singapore (Hokkien)	行街
	Shantou	行街
	Jieyang	行街, 獵街市
	Leizhou	行街
	Wenchang	行街
	Haikou	行街
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	逛街, 行街
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	遊街
Wu	Shanghai	蕩馬路, 壓馬路
	Shanghai (Chongming)	蕩街路
	Suzhou	蕩馬路
	Danyang	闖街頭, 晃街頭
	Hangzhou	蕩馬路
	Ningbo	蕩馬路, 蕩街
	Wenzhou	蕩街
	Jinhua	蕩馬路, 蕩街路
Xiang	Changsha	遊馬路, 壓馬路
Xiang	Loudi	遊馬路

References

“踅街”, 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.