金針

See also: 金针

Chinese

		metal; gold; money	needle; pin; injection
trad. (金針)		金	針
simp. (金针)		金	针

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jīnzhēn

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣㄓㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gam¹ zam¹
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ging¹ zieng¹ / ging¹ zeng¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kim-chiam / kim-cham
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹cin-tsen

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jīnzhēn
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣㄓㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jinjhen
  - Wade–Giles: chin¹-chên¹
  - Yale: jīn-jēn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jinjen
  - Palladius: цзиньчжэнь (czinʹčžɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂən⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: gam¹ zam¹
  - Yale: gām jām
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gam¹ dzam¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: gem¹ zem¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐm⁵⁵ t͡sɐm⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ging¹ zieng¹ [Phonetic: ging⁵ nieng¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ging-ciang
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiŋ⁵³³⁻¹¹ ^(t͡s-)niɛŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou, Youyang)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ging¹ zieng¹ [Phonetic: ging⁵ nieng¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiŋ⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ ^(t͡s-)niɛŋ⁵⁴⁴/
- (Fengting)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ging¹ zieng¹ [Phonetic: ging⁵ nieng¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiŋ⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ ^(t͡s-)nieŋ⁵⁴⁴/
- (Nanri)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ging¹ zeng¹ [Phonetic: ging⁵ neng¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiŋ⁵³³⁻¹¹ ^(t͡s-)ne̞ŋ⁵³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Tong'an)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kim-chiam
  - Tâi-lô: kim-tsiam
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kimciafm
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kim⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡siam⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Tong'an): /kim⁴⁴⁻²² t͡siam⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kim-cham
  - Tâi-lô: kim-tsam
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kimzafm
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kim³³ t͡sam³³/

Note: “daylily bud”.

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹cin-tsen
  - MiniDict: cin^平 tsen
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹jin-tsen
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵ t͡sən²¹/

Noun

金針

acupuncture needle
(figurative) secret; trick; key
daylily bud (used as an ingredient in some Chinese dishes such as hot and sour soup and moo shu pork)
(literary) needle or pin used in embroidery or sewing

Synonyms

(daylily bud): 黃花菜／黄花菜 (huánghuācài), 金針菜／金针菜 (jīnzhēncài)

Derived terms

金針菇 / 金针菇 (jīnzhēngū)
金針菜 / 金针菜 (jīnzhēncài)

References

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) “1393 金针菜（黄花菜）”, in 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 428.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
金	針
きん Grade: 1	しん Grade: 6
on'yomi

Noun

金(きん)針(しん) • (kinshin)

gold needle (used in acupuncture)