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筷
筷
See also: 箸
Translingual
Han character
筷 (radical 118 竹+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹心木大 (HPDK), four-corner 88934, composition ⿱⺮快)
References
- KangXi: not present, would follow page 886, character 23
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26100
- Dae Jaweon: page 1314, character 18
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2975, character 15
- Unihan data for U+7B77
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
筷 | |
|---|---|---|
Etymology
From 快 (kuài), originally euphemistic for 箸 (zhù), homophonous to 住 (zhù, “to stay; to stop”). See 筷子 (kuàizi) for more.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄞˋ
- Wade-Giles: k'uai4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuay
- IPA (key): /kʰu̯aɪ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: faai3
- Yale: faai
- Cantonese Pinyin: faai3
- IPA (key): /fɑːi̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khoai
- Hakka Romanization System: kuai
- Hagfa Pinyim: kuai4
- IPA: /kʰu̯ai̯⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: khue (T1)
- IPA (key): /kʰɯᴇ⁵³/
- (Shanghainese)
Definitions
筷
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 筷子 (“chopsticks”) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 箸、梜 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 筷子 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 筷子 |
| Taiwan | 筷子 | |
| Tianjin | 筷子 | |
| Jinan | 筷子 | |
| Xi'an | 筷子 | |
| Wuhan | 筷子 | |
| Chengdu | 筷子 | |
| Yangzhou | 筷子 | |
| Hefei | 筷子 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 筷子 |
| Hong Kong | 筷子 | |
| Taishan | 筷子 | |
| Yangjiang | 筷子 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 筷子 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 箸、筷隻、箸隻 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 筷仔 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 筷仔 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 筷仔、箸 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 筷、箸 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 箸 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 箸 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 筷子 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 箸 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 箸 |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 箸、箸奇 |
| Xiamen | 箸、箸奇、箸雙、奇箸 | |
| Zhangzhou | 箸、箸奇、奇箸 | |
| Taipei | 箸 | |
| Kaohsiung | 箸 | |
| Tainan | 箸 | |
| Taichung | 箸 | |
| Yilan | 箸 | |
| Lukang | 箸 | |
| Sanxia | 箸 | |
| Kinmen | 箸 | |
| Magong | 箸 | |
| Hsinchu | 箸 | |
| Malaysia | 箸 | |
| Chaozhou | 箸 | |
| Shantou | 箸 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 筷、筷子 |
| Suzhou | 筷兒 | |
| Wenzhou | 箸 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 筷子 |
| Shuangfeng | 筷子 | |
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
筷
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