猴兒頭

Chinese

monkey; die head; (noun suffix)
trad. (猴兒頭) 猴兒 頭
simp. (猴儿头) 猴儿 头
Literally: “monkey's head”.

Pronunciation

  • Jin (Wiktionary): hou1 er1 tou1
  • Jin
    • (Taiyuan)+
      • Wiktionary: hou1 er1 tou1
      • Sinological IPA (old-style, no sandhi): /xəu¹¹ əɻ¹¹ tʰəu¹¹/

Noun

猴兒頭

  1. (Jin) opium pipe

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 煙槍 (“opium pipe”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 煙槍
Central Plains Mandarin Xuzhou 煙槍
Cantonese Guangzhou 煙槍
Hong Kong 煙槍
Jin Taiyuan 猴兒頭
Southern Min Xiamen 烏薰吹
Quanzhou 烏薰吹
Zhangzhou 烏薰吹
Tainan 鴉片薰吹
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