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油炸鬼
油炸鬼
Chinese
| to deep-fry | ghost; sly; crafty | ||
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simp. and trad. (油炸鬼) |
油炸 | 鬼 | |
| alt. forms |
油炸粿 油炸果 |
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| Literally: “oil-fried ghost”. | |||
Noun
油炸鬼
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 油條 (“youtiao; Chinese cruller”) | ||
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| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 油條 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 油條兒 |
| Taiwan | 油條 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 油炸鬼 |
| Hong Kong | 油炸鬼 | |
| Taishan | 油炸鬼 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 油條 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 油炸鬼 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 油條 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 油條 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 油條 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 油條 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 油條 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 油條 | |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 油炸餜 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 油炸果 |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 油炸鬼 |
| Xiamen | 油炸粿 | |
| Zhangzhou | 油炸粿 | |
| Taipei | 油炸粿、油條 | |
| Kaohsiung | 油炸粿 | |
| Tainan | 油炸粿 | |
| Taichung | 油炸粿 | |
| Yilan | 油炸粿 | |
| Lukang | 油炸粿 | |
| Sanxia | 油炸粿 | |
| Kinmen | 油炸粿 | |
| Magong | 油條 | |
| Hsinchu | 油炸粿 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 油條、油煠燴 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 油炸棍、油絞條 |