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食指

食指

Chinese

 
eat; food; to feed; animal feed
 
finger; to point; to direct; to indicate
simp. and trad.
(食指) 		食 指

Noun

食指

  1. index finger
  2. mouths to feed

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 食指 (“index finger”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 食指、示指
Mandarin Beijing 食指、二拇指、二拇指頭
Taiwan 食指、二拇指、二拇指頭
Harbin 食指
Jinan 二拇指、食指、二門指頭
Muping 食指、二拇指、二拇指頭
Luoyang 二拇指頭、食指
Wanrong 二面手圪頭
Xi'an 二門指頭
Xining 二拇指頭
Xuzhou 食指
Yinchuan 二拇指
Ürümqi 二拇指頭、食指
Wuhan 二指甲
Chengdu 二指拇兒、食指
Guiyang 二指拇
Liuzhou 吃指、糧指
Yangzhou 二麻指
Nanjing 二指頭、二指抹頭、二馬指
Malaysia 食指
Singapore 食指
Cantonese Guangzhou 二指、食指
Hong Kong 二指、食指
Dongguan 食指
Taishan 二指
Gan Nanchang 二拇指頭
Lichuan 二手節
Pingxiang 第二隻手指腦
Hakka Yudu 二手指、食指
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 蛇頭指、指人指、拈食指
Liudui (S. Sixian) 指人指、拈食指
Hsinchu (Hailu) 蛇頭指、拈食指
Dongshi (Dabu) 食指、指人指、蛇頭指
Zhuolan (Raoping) 蛇頭指、指人指、拈食指
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 第二指
Hui Jixi 食指
Jin Taiyuan 二拇指頭
Xinzhou 二拇指頭
Min Dong Fuzhou 雞角指
Min Nan Quanzhou 指指
Xiamen 指指
Zhangzhou 雞指
Taipei 二指、指指
Kaohsiung 二指、指指
Tainan 二指、指指
Taichung 指指
Yilan 指指
Lukang 指指
Sanxia 報路
Kinmen 指指
Magong 指指
Hsinchu 二指
Chaozhou 雞指
Shantou 雞指
Haikou 第二手仔
Leizhou 戳鹽手仔
Pinghua Nanning 食指
Wu Shanghai 雞節頭
Suzhou 指人節頭
Hangzhou 食指
Wenzhou 指天指
Chongming 二節頭
Danyang 二拇指頭
Jinhua 食指、點鹽指
Ningbo 食指
Xiang Changsha 二指腦、二指拇
Loudi 二手指腦

Derived terms

  • 食指大動／食指大动
  • 食指浩繁

Japanese

Kanji in this term
食 指
Grade: 2 Grade: 3
Irregular
Kanji in this term
食 指
ひとさし
Grade: 2 		ゆび
Grade: 3
Irregular
Kanji in this term
食 指
しょく
Grade: 2 		し
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Etymology

From Chinese 食指. The kanji is jukujikun (熟字訓).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
  • (Tokyo) ひとさし​ゆび [hìtósáshíꜜyùbì] (Nakadaka - [4])
  • IPA(key): [çi̥to̞sa̠ɕijɯᵝbi]
  • (Irregular reading)
  • (Tokyo) ひと​さし [hìtóꜜsàshì] (Nakadaka - [2])
  • IPA(key): [çi̥to̞sa̠ɕi]

Noun

食指 ‎(hiragana しょくし, romaji shokushi, historical hiragana しよくし)
(alternative reading hiragana ひとさしゆび, romaji hitosashiyubi)
(alternative reading hiragana ひとさし, romaji hitosashi)

  1. an index finger; a forefinger

Idioms

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
  3. ↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13143-0

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