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啥人
啥人
Chinese
| (dialect) what | man; person; people | ||
|---|---|---|---|
|
simp. and trad. (啥人) |
啥 | 人 | |
| alt. forms | |||
Pronoun
啥人
- (Wu, Min, dialectal Mandarin) who
- 小黃，搿是啥人啊？ [Shanghainese, trad.]
- 小黄，搿是啥人啊？ [Shanghainese, simp.]
- 伊啥人啊？ [Shanghainese, trad. and simp.]
- 人情世事已經看透-透，有啥人比你卡重要？ [Taiwanese, trad.]
- 人情世事已经看透-透，有啥人比你卡重要？ [Taiwanese, simp.]
- From: 江蕙 (Jody Chiang), 家後 (Wife)
- Lîn-chêng-sè-sū í-keng khòaⁿ-thàu-thàu, ū siáⁿ-lâng pí lí khah tiōng-iàu? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
- [I] have already thoroughly seen the ways of the world. Who is more important than you?
- Xiao Huang, who is it?
- Who is he/she?
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 誰 (“who; whom”) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 誰、誰人、何人 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 誰 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 誰 |
| Taiwan | 誰 | |
| Jinan | 誰 | |
| Xi'an | 誰 | |
| Wuhan | 哪個、啥個 | |
| Chengdu | 哪個、啥子人 | |
| Yangzhou | 哪一個、哪個 | |
| Hefei | 哪個、哈個 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 邊個、乜誰 |
| Hong Kong | 邊個、乜誰 | |
| Taishan | 誰、阿誰 | |
| Yangjiang | 乜誰 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 哪個 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 麼人 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 麼人、麼儕 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 麼人、麼儕 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 麼人、麼儕 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 麼人、麼儕 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 麼人、麼儕 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 麼儕 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 誰、誰們 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 孰人 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 底人 |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 誰、是誰、啥人 |
| Xiamen | 誰、是誰、啥人、啥物人、什物人、底人 | |
| Zhangzhou | 誰、是誰、啥人 | |
| Taipei | 啥物人 | |
| Kaohsiung | 啥物人 | |
| Tainan | 啥物人 | |
| Taichung | 誰、啥人 | |
| Yilan | 啥人、誰 | |
| Lukang | 啥物人、誰 | |
| Sanxia | 啥人 | |
| Kinmen | 誰 | |
| Magong | 誰 | |
| Hsinchu | 誰、啥物人 | |
| Malaysia | 誰誰、誰誰人、是誰 | |
| Chaozhou | 底人、誰 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 啥人 |
| Suzhou | 啥人 | |
| Wenzhou | 何人、何呢人 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 哪個 |
| Shuangfeng | 哪個 | |
References
- (Min Nan) “Entry #7106”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.