還俗

Chinese

		pay back; return; also pay back; return; also; in addition; more; still; else; yet; (not) yet	vulgar
trad. (還俗)		還	俗
simp. (还俗)		还	俗

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): huánsú

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˊ ㄙㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): waan⁴ zuk⁶
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): huang² soeh⁷ / huong² syoeh⁷
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): hoân-sio̍k

(Teochew, Peng'im): huang⁵ sog⁸

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: huánsú
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˊ ㄙㄨˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: huánsú
  - Wade–Giles: huan²-su²
  - Yale: hwán-sú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwanswu
  - Palladius: хуаньсу (xuanʹsu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯än³⁵ su³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: waan⁴ zuk⁶
  - Yale: wàahn juhk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waan⁴ dzuk⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: wan⁴ zug⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːn²¹ t͡sʊk̚²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: huang² soeh⁷ [Phonetic: huang⁵ soeh⁷]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: huáng-se̤̍h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ¹³⁻¹¹ ɬœʔ⁴/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: huong² syoeh⁷ [Phonetic: huong⁵ nyoeh⁷]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huoŋ²⁴⁻²¹ ^(ɬ-)nyøʔ⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoân-sio̍k
  - Tâi-lô: huân-sio̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoansiok
  - IPA (Xiamen): /huan²⁴⁻²² siɔk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /huan²⁴⁻²² siɔk̚²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan¹³⁻²² siɔk̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /huan²⁴⁻¹¹ siɔk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan²³⁻³³ siɔk̚⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: huang⁵ sog⁸
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: huâng so̍k
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /huaŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ sok̚⁴/

Verb

還俗

(religion, of a monk or nun) to return to secular life

References

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), “还俗”, 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 292.