壁堵

Chinese

		wall; rampart	stop up
simp. and trad. (壁堵)		壁	堵

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): piah-tó͘

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piah-tó͘
    • Tâi-lô: piah-tóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piahdor
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pia(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ tɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pia(ʔ)⁵ tɔ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pia(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ tɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pia(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ tɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pia(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ tɔ⁴¹/

Noun

壁堵

1. (Xiamen, Quanzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) wall
2. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) partition wall plasterboard

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 牆 (“wall”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		牆, 壁, 垣墉
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		牆, 牆壁, 牆垣
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	牆
	Taiwan	牆
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	牆
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	牆
	Xi'an	牆
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	牆, 壁頭
	Wuhan	牆
	Guilin	牆
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	牆
	Hefei	牆
Mandarin	Singapore	牆壁
Cantonese	Guangzhou	牆
	Hong Kong	牆
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	籬壆, 牆
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	牆
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	牆
	Taishan	牆
	Dongguan	籬
	Yangjiang	牆
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	牆
	Hepu (Shatian)	牆
	Beihai	牆
	Beihai (Nankang)	牆
	Beihai (Yingpan)	牆
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	牆壁
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	牆
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	牆
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	牆
	Singapore (Guangfu)	牆
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	牆
	Móng Cái	牆
Gan	Nanchang	牆, 壁
	Pingxiang	牆
Hakka	Meixian	牆, 壁
	Yudu	牆
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	壁
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	壁
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	壁
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	壁
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	壁
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	壁
	Hong Kong	牆, 壁頭
	Senai (Huiyang)	牆
Huizhou	Jixi	牆壁
Jin	Taiyuan	牆
Northern Min	Jian'ou	牆
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	牆, 牆壁, 壁
Southern Min	Xiamen	牆, 壁, 壁堵
	Quanzhou	壁堵
	Zhao'an	壁
	Tainan	牆, 壁, 壁堵
	Penang (Hokkien)	牆, 壁
	Singapore (Hokkien)	牆, 壁
	Manila (Hokkien)	壁
	Medan (Hokkien)	壁
	Chaozhou	牆
	Bangkok (Teochew)	牆
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	牆
	Singapore (Teochew)	壁, 牆
Puxian Min	Putian	牆, 壁
	Putian (Donghai)	牆, 壁
	Putian (Jiangkou)	牆
	Putian (Nanri)	牆, 壁, 牆壁
	Xianyou	牆
	Xianyou (Fengting)	牆
	Xianyou (Youyang)	牆
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	牆
Wu	Shanghai	牆頭, 牆壁
	Shanghai (Chongming)	牆
	Suzhou	牆頭, 牆壁
	Danyang	牆頭
	Hangzhou	牆頭
	Ningbo	牆壁
	Wenzhou	屏牆, 牆
Xiang	Changsha	牆壁, 牆, 壁
	Xiangxiang	牆
	Loudi	壁頭
	Shuangfeng	牆頭, 壁頭

References

• “Entry #11659”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.