參仔

Chinese

		ginseng	minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility
trad. (參仔/蔘仔)		參/蔘	仔
simp. (参仔)		参	仔

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sim-á

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sim-á
    • Tâi-lô: sim-á
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sim'ar
    • IPA (Taipei): /sim⁴⁴⁻³³ a⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sim⁴⁴⁻³³ a⁴¹/

Noun

參仔

1. (Taiwanese Hokkien) ginseng (any of several plants, of the genus Panax)

   • 不通將蔘仔當作是菜頭 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     不通将参仔当作是菜头 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     From: 1992, 陳雷, lyrics by 劉聖雯, 我不是開玩笑

     m̄-thang chiong sim-á tòng-chò sī chhài-thâu [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     Don't take ginseng for radish

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 人參 (“ginseng”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		人參
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	人參
	Singapore	人參
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	人參
	Wanrong	人參
	Xi'an	人參
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	參
Cantonese	Guangzhou	參
	Hong Kong	人參, 參
Gan	Nanchang	人參
	Lichuan	人參
	Pingxiang	人參, 參
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	參
Southern Min	Xiamen	人參
	Quanzhou	人參
	Zhangzhou	人參
	Tainan	參仔
	Leizhou	參
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	人參
Wu	Suzhou	人參