薰鬼
Chinese
| Dipteryx odorata | ghost; sly; crafty | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (薰鬼) | 薰 | 鬼 | |
| simp. #(薰鬼) | 薰 | 鬼 | |
| alternative forms | 煙鬼／烟鬼 Hokkien | ||
Pronunciation
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hong1 gui3 / huong1 gui3
- Southern Min
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: hong1 gui3 [Phonetic: hong5 gui3]
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: heong-gûi
- Sinological IPA (key): /hɔŋ⁵³³⁻¹¹ kui⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: huong1 gui3 [Phonetic: huong5 gui3]
- Sinological IPA (key): /huoŋ⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ kui³³²/
- (Putian)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hun-kúi
- Tâi-lô: hun-kuí
- Phofsit Daibuun: hunkuie
- IPA (Taipei): /hun⁴⁴⁻³³ kui⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /hun⁴⁴⁻³³ kui⁴¹/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: hung1 gui2
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hung kúi
- Sinological IPA (key): /huŋ³³⁻²³ kui⁵²/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
Noun
薰鬼
- (Hokkien, Teochew, Puxian Min) heavy smoker; chain smoker
- (Hokkien) opium smoker; opium addict
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 煙鬼 (“heavy smoker”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 煙鬼 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 煙鬼 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 煙鬼 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xuzhou | 煙槍, 老煙槍, 老煙鬼 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liuzhou | 老煙槓 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 煙鬼子 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 煙鏟 |
| Southern Min | Jieyang | 薰蟲 |
| Puxian Min | Putian | 薰鬼 |
| Xianyou | 薰鬼 | |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 煙鬼, 煙槓 |
| Wu | Danyang | 煙鬼 |
Dialectal synonyms of 鴉片鬼 (“opium addict”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 鴉片鬼, 煙鬼 | |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 煙鬼 dated |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 大煙鬼兒, 煙鬼兒 |
| Xuzhou | 煙槍 | |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 煙鬼子 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 煙精, 煙鏟, 煙槓, 道友, 大粒煙 |
| Gan | Lichuan | 洋煙鬼 dated |
| Hakka | Meixian | 鴉片煙腳 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 洋煙鬼 |
| Xinzhou | 洋煙鬼 dated | |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 鴉片鬼 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 鴉片鬼 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 烏薰仙, 鴉片仙, 鴉片鬼 |
| Quanzhou | 烏薰仙, 鴉片仙 | |
| Zhangzhou | 烏薰仙, 烏薰鬼, 鴉片仙, 鴉片鬼 | |
| Tainan | 鴉片仙, 鴉片猴 | |
| Penang (Hokkien) | 鴉片仙 | |
| Manila (Hokkien) | 烏薰仙, 鴉片仙 | |
| Shantou | 鴉片薰鬼 | |
| Puxian Min | Putian | 鴉片鬼, 鴉片生 |
| Xianyou | 鴉片鬼, 鴉片生 | |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 鴉片佬, 鴉片鬼 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 鴉片煙鬼 |
| Shanghai (Chongming) | 大煙鬼 | |
| Suzhou | 鴉片煙鬼 | |
| Danyang | 煙鬼 dated | |
| Hangzhou | 烏煙鬼兒, 鴉片鬼兒 | |
| Ningbo | 鴉片鬼 | |
| Wenzhou | 烏煙鬼 | |
References
- 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “煙鬼”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary][1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
- “hun-kúi”, in Taiwanese-English Dictionary[2], Taichung: Maryknoll Language Service Center, 1976, archived from the original on 11 August 2020.
- 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “薰鬼”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 276.