𠁣𠃛仔直
Chinese
| creaking sound; squeaking sound | minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility |
straight; vertical; frank straight; vertical; frank; directly; straightly; upright | ||
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| simp. and trad. (𠁣𠃛仔直) |
𠁣𠃛 | 仔 | 直 | |
Pronunciation
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): īⁿ-oaiⁿ-á-ti̍t
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: īⁿ-oaiⁿ-á-ti̍t
- Tâi-lô: īnn-uainn-á-ti̍t
- Phofsit Daibuun: vix'voai'afdit
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ĩ²²⁻²¹ uãi⁴⁴⁻²² a⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tit̚¹²¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
Verb
𠁣𠃛仔直
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien, board games) to be able to capture an opponent piece with any move one can make (a favorable situation in the board game called 行直 (kiâⁿ-ti̍t))
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien, figurative) to be favorable only to one side no matter how one talks about it
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien, figurative) to bend with the wind; to change one's position, attitude, behaviour, etc. depending on the situation (usually with negative connotation)
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 看風使舵 (“to bend with the wind”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 看風使舵, 看風使帆, 看風轉舵, 看風駛船, 見風使舵, 見風轉舵, 見風使帆, 見風轉篷, 見風駛船 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 趁風使𢃇, 見風使𢃇 |
| Hong Kong | 看風使𢃇, 見風使𢃇 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 見風轉舵 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 看風駛船 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 看風使篷, 看風駛船 |
| Quanzhou | 看風駛船 | |
| Zhangzhou | 看風駛船, 𠁣𠃛仔直 | |
| Haikou | 望風駛船 | |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 看風使𢃇 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 隨風轉舵 |
| Ningbo | 看風駛船 | |