頭七

Chinese

		head; (noun suffix)	seven
trad. (頭七)		頭	七
simp. (头七)		头	七

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tóuqī

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄡˊ ㄑㄧ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tau⁴ cat¹
Gan (Wiktionary): 'teu² qit⁶
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): thêu-chhit

(Hailu, HRS): teu cid

(Meixian, Guangdong): têu² qid⁵
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): tao² cih⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thâu-chhit

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tóuqī
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄡˊ ㄑㄧ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tóuci
  - Wade–Giles: tʻou²-chʻi¹
  - Yale: tóu-chī
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tourchi
  - Palladius: тоуци (touci)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰoʊ̯³⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tau⁴ cat¹
  - Yale: tàuh chāt
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tau⁴ tsat⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: teo⁴ ced¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɐu̯²¹ t͡sʰɐt̚⁵/
Gan
- (Nanchang)
  - Wiktionary: 'teu² qit⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˈtʰɛu²⁴ t͡ɕʰit̚⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thêu-chhit
  - Hakka Romanization System: teu^ˊ qid^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: teu¹ qid⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰeu̯²⁴ t͡sʰit̚²/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: teu cid
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰeu⁵⁵ t͡sʰit⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: têu² qid⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰeu¹¹ t͡ɕʰit̚¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: tao² cih⁶ [Phonetic: tao⁴ cih⁶]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: táu-chih
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰau¹³⁻⁴² t͡sʰiʔ²¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: tao² cih⁶ [Phonetic: tao⁴ cih⁶]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰau²⁴⁻⁴² t͡sʰiʔ²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thâu-chhit
  - Tâi-lô: thâu-tshit
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tauchid
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰau²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰit̚³²/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰau¹³⁻²² t͡sʰit̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰau²³⁻³³ t͡sʰit̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰau²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sʰit̚³²/

Noun

頭七

the (first of every) seventh day after a person's death; the first seven-day period after a person's death

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), “头七”, 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 525.