馬檻

Chinese

		horse; surname	door sill; threshold; bar door sill; threshold; bar; railing
trad. (馬檻)		馬	檻
simp. (马槛)		马	槛

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maa⁵ laam^6-2

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: maa⁵ laam^6-2
    • Yale: máh láam
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maa⁵ laam^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: ma⁵ lam^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maː¹³ laːm²²⁻³⁵/

Noun

馬檻

1. (Cantonese) brothel

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 妓院 (“brothel”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		妓院, 妓館, 娼寮
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	窯子
	Taiwan	妓院, 風月場所
	Harbin	窯子
	Singapore	妓院
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	窯子
	Xi'an	窯子
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	窯子
Southwestern Mandarin	Liuzhou	窯班
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	堂子 dated
Cantonese	Guangzhou	老舉寨, 老舉寮, 寨口 dated, 河下 dated
	Hong Kong	妓院, 雞竇, 妓寨, 老舉寨, 馬檻
	Taishan	老舉寨
	Dongguan	老舉寨
	Yangjiang	老舉寨
Gan	Lichuan	婊子堂, 堂子把下
	Pingxiang	婊子房
Hakka	Xingning	老舉寨
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	老舉寨
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	賺食間仔
Huizhou	Jixi	妓院
Jin	Taiyuan	窯子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	妓嫲行
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	婊子場, 白面厝
Southern Min	Xiamen	查某間, 妓女間, 婊仔間, 婊間, 花間, 間仔底, 間仔, 跤梢間仔
	Quanzhou	查某間, 婊仔間, 花間
	Zhangzhou	查某間, 查某孫間, 婊仔間, 花間仔, 花間, 間仔底
	Taipei	跤梢間仔, 貓仔間, 蟯仔街
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	跤梢間仔, 跤梢間, 酒家, 妓女戶, 暗間仔, 跤仔間, 茶店仔, 查某間, 大肚夫, 竹篙厝
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	跤梢間仔
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	查某間, 跤梢間仔
	Kaohsiung	妓女戶, 酒家, 暗間仔, 跤梢間仔
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	酒家, 跤梢間仔
	Kaohsiung (Hongmaogang, Siaogang)	酒家, 跤梢間仔, 貓仔間
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	酒家, 跤梢間仔, 貓仔間, 妓女戶, 菜店, 查某間仔
	Kaohsiung (Tianliao)	酒家, 跤梢間仔, 暗間仔, 妓女戶, 貓仔間
	Yilan	妓女戶, 酒家, 暗間仔, 跤梢間仔
	Yilan (Toucheng)	妓女戶, 查某間, 暗間仔
	Changhua (Lukang)	查某間, 烏間, 跤梢間
	Taichung	跤梢間仔, 查某間
	Tainan	酒家, 跤梢間仔
	Tainan (Anping)	酒家, 跤梢間仔, 菜店
	Hsinchu	跤梢間仔, 趁食間仔
	Kinmen	相楗仔, 妓女戶
	Penghu (Magong)	跤梢間, 妓女院
	Penghu (Xiyu)	跤梢間, 妓女院, 菜店
	Manila (Hokkien)	婊間, 摃間
	Jieyang	查某館
	Leizhou	娘館
Zhongshan Min	Sanxiang	老舉寨
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	老妓寨
Wu	Shanghai	妓院, 堂子
	Hangzhou	堂子 dated
Xiang	Changsha	窯班