香港跤

Chinese

		bones of leg; wrestle
trad. (香港跤)	香港	跤
simp. ^#(香港跤)	香港	跤
alternative forms	香港腳／香港脚香港骹
Literally: “Hong Kong foot”.

Pronunciation

Northern Min (KCR): hióng-gǒng-káu
Eastern Min (BUC): hiŏng-gē̤ng-kă
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hyorng¹ gang³ kor¹ / hyoeng¹ gang³ kor¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): hiong-káng-kha / hiang-káng-kha

(Teochew, Peng'im): hiang¹ gang² ka¹

Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: hióng-gǒng-káu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xiɔŋ⁵⁴ kɔŋ²¹ kʰau⁵⁴/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: hiŏng-gē̤ng-kă
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hyoŋ⁵⁵⁻²¹ ^(k-)ŋøyŋ³³⁻²¹ ^(kʰ-)ŋa⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hyorng¹ gang³ kor¹ [Phonetic: hyorng⁵ gang⁵ ngor¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hio̤ng-gâng-ko̤
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hyɒŋ⁵³³⁻¹¹ kaŋ⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ ^(kʰ-)ŋɒ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hyoeng¹ gang³ kor¹ [Phonetic: hyoeng⁵ gang⁵ ngor¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hyøŋ⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ kaŋ³³²⁻²¹ ^(kʰ-)ŋɒ⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese, Philippines, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiong-káng-kha
  - Tâi-lô: hiong-káng-kha
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hiongkafngqaf
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kaŋ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kʰa⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kaŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kʰa⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Philippines): /hiɔŋ³³ kaŋ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kʰa³³/
  - IPA (Singapore): /hiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴²⁻²⁴ kʰa⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kʰa⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiang-káng-kha
  - Tâi-lô: hiang-káng-kha
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hiangkafngqaf
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kʰa⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: hiang¹ gang² ka¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hiang káng kha
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiaŋ³³⁻²³ kaŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ kʰa³³/

Noun

香港跤

(Min) athlete's foot

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 腳癬 (“athlete's foot”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		足癬, 腳癬, 腳氣
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	香港腳
Northeastern Mandarin	Singapore	香港腳
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	腳蝕
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	腳氣
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	腳氣
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	濕氣
Southwestern Mandarin	Guiyang	腳氣, 濕氣
Cantonese	Guangzhou	香港腳
	Hong Kong	香港腳
	Dongguan	香港腳
Hakka	Meixian	香港腳
	Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua)	香港腳
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	香港腳
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	香港腳
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	香港腳
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	香港腳
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	香港腳
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	香港腳
Jin	Taiyuan	腳氣
Northern Min	Jian'ou	香港跤
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	香港跤
Southern Min	Xiamen	香港跤, 跤癬
	Quanzhou	香港跤
	Zhangzhou	香港跤
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	香港跤
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	香港跤
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	香港跤
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	香港跤
	Yilan (Toucheng)	香港跤
	Tainan (Anping)	香港跤
	Penghu (Xiyu)	香港跤
	Singapore (Hokkien)	香港跤
Puxian Min	Putian	香港跤
Puxian Min	Xianyou	香港跤
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	腳癬, 香港腳
Wu	Shanghai	腳癬, 香港腳, 濕氣
	Suzhou	腳癬, 濕氣 also ringworm of the hand
	Danyang	腳氣
	Ningbo	濕氣
	Wenzhou	腳氣, 香港腳, 腳濕氣

References

“香港跤”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
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), “香港跤”, 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 295.