頭牲

Chinese

	head; (noun suffix)	domestic animal
trad. (頭牲)	頭	牲
simp. (头牲)	头	牲
alternative forms	頭生／头生

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): tau⁴ saang¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): thèu-sên

(Hailu, HRS): teu sang^ˋ

(Meixian, Guangdong): têu² sang¹
Northern Min (KCR): tê-sáng
Eastern Min (BUC): tàu-săng
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): tao² sa¹ / tao² sann¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thâu-siⁿ / thâu-seⁿ

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tau⁴ saang¹
  - Yale: tàuh sāang
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tau⁴ saang¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: teo⁴ sang¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɐu̯²¹ saːŋ⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thèu-sên
  - Hakka Romanization System: teu^ˇ sen^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: teu² sen¹
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰeu̯¹¹ sen²⁴/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: teu sang^ˋ
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰeu⁵⁵ saŋ⁵³/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: têu² sang¹
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰeu¹¹ saŋ⁴⁴/
Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: tê-sáng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰe³³ saŋ⁵⁴/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: tàu-săng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰau⁵³⁻⁵⁵ ^(s-)laŋ⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: tao² sa¹ [Phonetic: tao⁵ la¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: táu-saⁿ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰau¹³⁻¹¹ ^(ɬ-)la⁵³³/
- (Xianyou, Fengting)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: tao² sann¹ [Phonetic: tao⁵ na¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰau²⁴⁻²¹ ^(ɬ-)na⁵⁴⁴/
- (Youyang)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: tao² sann¹ [Phonetic: tao⁵ na¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰau²⁴⁻²¹ ^(θ-)na⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thâu-siⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: thâu-sinn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tausvy
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰau²⁴⁻²² sĩ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰau²⁴⁻¹¹ sĩ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thâu-seⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: thâu-senn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tausvef
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰau¹³⁻²² sɛ̃⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰau²³⁻³³ sẽ⁴⁴/

Noun

頭牲

(Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, Northern Min, Eastern Min) livestock; domestic animals

Synonyms

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家畜 (jiāchù)
牲口 (shēngkǒu)
牲畜 (shēngchù)
畜生
眾牲 / 众牲 (Wu)
精牲 (Hokkien, Teochew)
豬狗精牲 / 猪狗精牲 (Hokkien)

Derived terms

頭牲仔 / 头牲仔

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) “440 牲口”, 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 334.