冶遊

Chinese

		smelt	to roam; travel
trad. (冶遊/冶游)		冶	遊/游
simp. (冶游)		冶	游

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yěyóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄝˇ ㄧㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): je⁵ jau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yěyóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˇ ㄧㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yěyóu
    • Wade–Giles: yeh³-yu²
    • Yale: yě-yóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeeyou
    • Palladius: ею (jeju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ joʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: je⁵ jau⁴
    • Yale: yéh yàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: je⁵ jau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yé⁵ yeo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛː¹³ jɐu̯²¹/

Verb

冶遊

1. (literary) to go for an outing in the spring or during a festivity
2. (archaic) to visit a brothel; to visit a prostitute

Synonyms

• (to visit a brothel):

Dialectal synonyms of 嫖娼 (“to visit prostitutes”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		冶遊
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		嫖娼, 嫖妓, 狎妓, 宿娼
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	逛窯子, 打野雞
	Taiwan	嫖妓, 打炮
	Harbin	逛窯子, 打兔兒, 打兔子
	Singapore	嫖妓, 叫雞
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	逛窯子
	Xining	嫖妓
	Xuzhou	鑽狗洞
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	逮貓兒
	Liuzhou	嫖騇
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	嫖媽媽, 打野食
Cantonese	Guangzhou	嫖老舉, 嫖騇, 叫雞, 食雞
	Hong Kong	叫雞, 召妓, 撳鐘仔, call G
	Singapore (Guangfu)	叫雞
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	開細妹仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	開細妹仔
	Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian)	開細妹
	Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian)	屌細妹仔
	Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian)	開細妹仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	開細妹仔
Huizhou	Jixi	打茶會
Jin	Xinzhou	逛窯子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	𢫦炮
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	嫖白面, 食雞
Southern Min	Xiamen	開查某, 開銷
	Quanzhou	開查某, 開銷
	Zhangzhou	開查某, 開銷
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	開查某
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	開查某
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	開查某
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	開查某
	Yilan (Toucheng)	開查某
	Tainan	開查某
	Tainan (Anping)	開查某
	Penghu (Xiyu)	開查某
	Singapore (Hokkien)	叫雞
	Leizhou	放娘
Zhongshan Min	Sanxiang	搵雞, 嫖老舉
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	嫖騇
Wu	Shanghai	打野雞, 斬鹹肉
	Danyang	打野雞