驚死

See also: 惊死

Chinese

		to fear	to die; impassable; uncrossable to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid
trad. (驚死)		驚	死
simp. (惊死)		惊	死
Literally: “to fear death”.

Pronunciation 1

Cantonese (Jyutping): geng¹ sei²
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gia¹ si³ / giann¹ si³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kiaⁿ-sí

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: geng¹ sei²
  - Yale: gēng séi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: geng¹ sei²
  - Guangdong Romanization: géng¹ séi²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɛːŋ⁵⁵ sei̯³⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: gia¹ si³ [Phonetic: gia⁵ si³]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: giaⁿ-sî
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kia⁵³³⁻¹¹ ɬi⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: giann¹ si³ [Phonetic: giann⁵ si³]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kĩã⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ ɬi³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiaⁿ-sí
  - Tâi-lô: kiann-sí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kviasie
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kiã⁴⁴⁻²² si⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kiã³³ si⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiã⁴⁴⁻²² si⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kiã⁴⁴⁻³³ si⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiã⁴⁴⁻³³ si⁴¹/

Verb

驚⫽死 (verb-object)

(Cantonese, Southern Min, Puxian Min) to fear death

Adjective

驚死

(Cantonese, Southern Min) afraid; scared; cowardly
你做咩咁驚死？ [Cantonese, trad.]
你做咩咁惊死？ [Cantonese, simp.]
nei⁵ zou⁶ me¹ gam³ geng¹ sei²? [Jyutping]
Why are you so scared?

Synonyms

怕死 (pàsǐ)

Descendants

→ English: kiasi

Pronunciation 2

Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kiaⁿ--sí

Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiaⁿ--sí
  - Tâi-lô: kiann--sí

Verb

驚死

(Southern Min) to scare someone to death
你真正予我驚死。 [Hokkien, trad.]
你真正予我惊死。 [Hokkien, simp.]
Lí chin-chiàⁿ hō͘ góa kiaⁿ--sí. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
You really scared me to death.

Synonyms

(Mandarin, Cantonese) 嚇死／吓死 (xiàsǐ)
(Wu) 嚇殺／吓杀 (xiàshā)

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), “惊死”, 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 212.