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魎哀

魎哀

Chinese

sprite; fairy
 
sorrow; grief; pity; to grieve for; to pity; to lament
trad. (魎哀)
simp. (魉哀)

Noun

魎哀

  1. (Taiwan Min Nan, dated) monkey

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 猴子 (“monkey”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 猴子
Mandarin Beijing 猴子猴兒
Jinan 猴子猴兒、猴三兒
Xi'an
Wuhan 猴子
Chengdu 猴子、猴猻兒
Yangzhou 猴子
Hefei 猴子
Cantonese Guangzhou 馬騮
Hong Kong 馬騮
Taishan 馬騮
Yangjiang 馬騮
Gan Nanchang 猴子
Hakka Meixian 猴哥
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 猴哥猴仔
Liudui (S. Sixian) 猴哥猴仔
Hsinchu (Hailu) 猴哥猴仔
Dongshi (Dabu) 猴哥
Zhuolan (Raoping) 猴哥猴仔
Yunlin (Zhao'an)
Jin Taiyuan 毛猴
Min Bei Jian'ou 猴屄
Min Dong Fuzhou 、猴囝
Min Nan Xiamen 猴仔
Taipei 猴山仔
Chaozhou
Wu Shanghai 活猻
Suzhou 猢猻
Wenzhou 猴大
Xiang Changsha 猴子
Shuangfeng 猴子、猴猻

References

  • Governor-General of Taiwan (1931–1932), Ogawa Naoyoshi, editor, 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese and Min Nan), volume 2, Taihoku: 同府 [Dōfu], OCLC 25747241, page 996.