坦克

Chinese

		flat; open-hearted; level flat; open-hearted; level; smooth	to subdue
simp. and trad. (坦克)		坦	克

坦克 (1)

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of English tank.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tǎnkè

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˇ ㄎㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taan² hak¹ / taan² haak¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): thán-khek / thán-khiak

  (Teochew, Peng'im): tang² kiog⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tǎnkè
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˇ ㄎㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tǎnkè
    • Wade–Giles: tʻan³-kʻo⁴
    • Yale: tǎn-kè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: taankeh
    • Palladius: танькэ (tanʹkɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰän²¹⁴⁻²¹ kʰɤ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tǎnkèr
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˇ ㄎㄜˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tǎnkèr
    • Wade–Giles: tʻan³-kʻo⁴-ʼrh
    • Yale: tǎn-kèr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: taankehl
    • Palladius: танькэр (tanʹkɛr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰän²¹⁴⁻²¹ kʰɤɻ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: taan² hak¹ / taan² haak¹
    • Yale: táan hāk / táan hāak
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taan² hak⁷ / taan² haak⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: tan² heg¹ / tan² hag¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːn³⁵ hɐk̚⁵/, /tʰaːn³⁵ haːk̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thán-khek
    • Tâi-lô: thán-khik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tafnqeg
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /tʰan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kʰiɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰan⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kʰiɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thán-khiak
    • Tâi-lô: thán-khiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tafnqiag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kʰiak̚⁵/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: tang² kiog⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tháng khiok
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ kʰiok̚²/

Noun

坦克

1. tank (armoured fighting vehicle) (Classifier: 輛／辆 m; 部 m c; 臺／台 m; 架 c)
2. (slang, derogatory, offensive) fat girl

   按F進入坦克／按F进入坦克  ―  àn F jìnrù tǎnkè  ―  Press F to enter the tank (to start a relation with a fat girl)

Synonyms

• (tank):

Dialectal synonyms of 坦克 (“tank”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		坦克, 坦克車
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	坦克車
	Taiwan	坦克, 坦克車
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	坦克車
Mandarin	Singapore	坦克
Cantonese	Hong Kong	坦克車
Southern Min	Xiamen	鐵甲車
	Quanzhou	鐵甲車
	Zhangzhou	鐵甲車
	Leizhou	鐵甲車

Derived terms

• 反坦克 (fǎntǎnkè)
• 坦克手 (tǎnkèshǒu)
• 坦克車／坦克车 (tǎnkèchē)
• 老坦克

 

Descendants

• → Lü: ᦒᧂᦵᦆᦲᧉ (thangxoe²)