三文治

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (三文治)		三	文	治

Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich. The transliteration was found in an 1922 article in a literary collection by Lu Xun.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sānwénzhì

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄢ ㄨㄣˊ ㄓˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saam¹ man⁴ zi⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sānwénzhì
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄢ ㄨㄣˊ ㄓˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sanwúnjhìh
    • Wade–Giles: san¹-wên²-chih⁴
    • Yale: sān-wén-jr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sanwenjyh
    • Palladius: саньвэньчжи (sanʹvɛnʹčži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sän⁵⁵ wən³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saam¹ man⁴ zi⁶
    • Yale: sāam màhn jih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saam¹ man⁴ dzi⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sam¹ men⁴ ji⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːm⁵⁵ mɐn²¹ t͡siː²²/

Noun

三文治

1. sandwich (Classifier: 件 c; 份 c)

   • 然而不的，用英文，不過是Chocolate apricot sandwich。我買定了八盒這「黃枚朱古律三文治」，付過錢，將他們裝入衣袋裡。 [MSC, trad.]
     然而不的，用英文，不过是Chocolate apricot sandwich。我买定了八盒这「黄枚朱古律三文治」，付过钱，将他们装入衣袋里。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1922 April 12, 魯迅 [Lu Xun], 《熱風》

     Rán'ér bù de, yòng yīngwén, bùguò shì Chocolate apricot sandwich. Wǒ mǎi dìng le bā hé zhè “huángméi zhūgǔlǜ sānwénzhì”, fù guò qián, jiāng tāmen zhuāng rù yīdài lǐ. [Pinyin]

     Yet it wasn't; written in English was just "Chocolate apricot sandwich". I took eight boxes of this "chocolate apricot sandwich", paid, and put them in my pocket.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 三明治 (“sandwich”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		三明治, 三文治, 三味治 rare
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	三明治
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	三梅子 dated
	Guilin	三明治
Mandarin	Singapore	三文治
Cantonese	Guangzhou	三文治
	Hong Kong	三文治
	Macau	三文治
	Dongguan	三文治
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	三明治
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	三明治
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	三文治
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	三文治
	Móng Cái	三明治
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	三明治
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	三明治
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	三明治
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	三明治
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	三明治
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	三明治
	Senai (Huiyang)	三文治
Southern Min	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	三文治
Wu	Shanghai	三明治

Derived terms

• 公司三文治 (gōngsī sānwénzhì)
• 雪糕三文治