乳頭

See also: 乳头

Chinese

		breast; milk	head; (noun suffix)
trad. (乳頭)		乳	頭
simp. (乳头)		乳	头

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rǔtóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄨˇ ㄊㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁵ tau⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): nen-thèu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rǔtóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄨˇ ㄊㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rǔtóu
    • Wade–Giles: ju³-tʻou²
    • Yale: rǔ-tóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ruutour
    • Palladius: жутоу (žutou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐu²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rǔtóur
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄨˇ ㄊㄡˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rǔtóur
    • Wade–Giles: ju³-tʻou²-ʼrh
    • Yale: rǔ-tóur
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ruutourl
    • Palladius: жутоур (žutour)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐu²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰɤʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyu⁵ tau⁴
    • Yale: yúh tàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁵ tau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁵ teo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː¹³ tʰɐu̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: nen-thèu
    • Hakka Romanization System: nen teuˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: nen⁴ teu²
    • Sinological IPA: /nen⁵⁵ tʰeu̯¹¹/

Noun

乳頭

1. (anatomy) nipple
2. (anatomy) papilla

Synonyms

• (nipple):

Dialectal synonyms of 乳頭 (“nipple”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		乳頭
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	奶頭兒, 乳頭兒, 媽媽頭兒, 咂頭兒, 咂咂頭兒
	Harbin	奶頭兒
	Singapore	奶頭
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	媽媽頭兒, 奶頭兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	奶頭
	Wanrong	奶頭
	Xi'an	奶頭嘴
	Xuzhou	媽媽頂子
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	奶頭
	Lanzhou	苶苶蛋子
	Ürümqi	奶頭
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	奶奶嘴嘴兒
	Wuhan	媽媽頭, 媽頭, 奶頭
	Guiyang	咪咪嘴, 奶頭, 奶嘴
	Liuzhou	奶頭
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	奶頭子
Cantonese	Hong Kong	𢆡頭, 𢆡
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	𢆡頭, 奶頭
Gan	Nanchang	奶頭子
	Lichuan	奶珠
	Pingxiang	奶嘴仔
Hakka	Meixian	奶菇嘴, 奶嘴
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	奶頭
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	奶頭
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	奶頭
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	奶頭
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	奶頭
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	奶頭
Huizhou	Jixi	奶頭
Jin	Taiyuan	奶頭頭
	Xinzhou	奶頭
Northern Min	Jian'ou	奶頭
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	奶頭
Southern Min	Xiamen	奶仔頭, 奶頭
	Quanzhou	奶頭
	Zhangzhou	奶頭仔
	Tainan	奶頭
	Singapore (Hokkien)	奶奶扑
	Manila (Hokkien)	奶頭
	Leizhou	乳蒂
	Haikou	奶頭
Wu	Shanghai	奶奶頭, 奶頭
	Shanghai (Chongming)	奶頭
	Suzhou	奶奶頭
	Danyang	奶頭
	Hangzhou	奶奶頭
	Ningbo	奶頭, 奶奶頭
	Wenzhou	奶頭, 奶奶頭兒, 奶子頭兒
	Jinhua	奶頭
Xiang	Changsha	奶頭
	Loudi	奶婆尖子

Derived terms

• 乳頭瘤／乳头瘤
• 腎乳頭／肾乳头 (shènrǔtóu)
• 舌乳頭／舌乳头 (shérǔtóu)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (乳頭):

• → Japanese: 乳頭(にゅうとう) (nyūtō)
• → Korean: 유두(乳頭) (yudu)

See also

• 乳房 (rǔfáng)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
乳	頭
にゅう Grade: 6	とう Grade: 2
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) にゅうとー [nyùútóó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɲ̟ɯ̟ᵝːto̞ː]

Noun

乳(にゅう)頭(とう) • (nyūtō) 

1. (anatomy) nipple

Synonyms

• 乳首(ちくび) (chikubi)

Korean

Hanja in this term
乳	頭

Noun

乳頭 • (yudu or McCune-Reischauer: yudu or Yale: yutwu) (hangeul 유두)

1. Hanja form^? of 유두 (“nipple”).