靛青

Chinese

		indigo pigment	green (blue, black); Qinghai province (abbrev.)
trad. (靛青)		靛	青
simp. ^#(靛青)		靛	青

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): diànqīng

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄑㄧㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): din⁶ ceng¹
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): de⁵ ca¹ / dinn⁵ cann¹
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶din-chin

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: diànqīng
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄑㄧㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: diàncing
  - Wade–Giles: tien⁴-chʻing¹
  - Yale: dyàn-chīng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diannching
  - Palladius: дяньцин (djanʹcin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵¹ t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: din⁶ ceng¹
  - Yale: dihn chēng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: din⁶ tseng¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: din⁶ céng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːn²² t͡sʰɛːŋ⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: de⁵ ca¹ [Phonetic: de⁵ la¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /te¹¹ ^(t͡sʰ-)la⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: dinn⁵ cann¹ [Phonetic: dinn⁵ na¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tĩ²¹ ^(t͡sʰ-)na⁵⁴⁴/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶din-chin
  - MiniDict: din^去 chin
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³din-qin
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /din²² t͡ɕʰin⁴⁴/

Noun

靛青

indigo (substance)
indigo (color)
(Puxian Min) indigo naturalis (indigo dye extract used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat infection, epilepsy, mouth inflammation and nose bleeds)

Synonyms

靛藍／靛蓝 (diànlán)

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), “靛青”, 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 136.