狗屋

Chinese

		dog	house; room
simp. and trad. (狗屋)		狗	屋

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǒuwū

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄡˇ ㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gau² uk¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gǒuwū
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄡˇ ㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gǒuwu
    • Wade–Giles: kou³-wu¹
    • Yale: gǒu-wū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: goouu
    • Palladius: гоуу (gouu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ u⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gau² uk¹
    • Yale: gáu ūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gau² uk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: geo² ug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐu̯³⁵ ʊk̚⁵/

Noun

狗屋

1. kennel; doghouse
2. (Hong Kong, slang, derogatory) police station

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 狗窩 (“kennel; doghouse”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		狗窩, 狗屋
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	狗窩
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	狗窩
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	狗窩
	Xi'an	狗窩
	Xining	狗窩
	Xuzhou	狗窩
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	狗窩
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	狗窩, 狗窩窩
	Wuhan	狗窠
	Guiyang	狗窩
	Liuzhou	狗窩, 狗竇
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	狗窩
	Yangzhou	狗窩
Cantonese	Guangzhou	狗竇
	Taishan	狗竇
	Dongguan	狗竇
Gan	Nanchang	狗窩
	Lichuan	狗藪
	Pingxiang	狗窠
Hakka	Meixian	狗竇
	Yudu	狗藪
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	狗竇
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	狗竇
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	狗竇
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	狗竇
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping)	狗竇
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	狗藪
Huizhou	Jixi	狗窠
Jin	Taiyuan	狗窩
	Xinzhou	狗窩
Northern Min	Jian'ou	狗巢
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	犬宿
Southern Min	Xiamen	狗岫
	Quanzhou	狗岫
	Jinjiang	狗岫
	Zhangzhou	狗岫
	Leizhou	狗岫
	Haikou	狗岫
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	狗竇
Wu	Shanghai	狗窠
	Shanghai (Chongming)	狗窠
	Suzhou	狗窠
	Danyang	狗窠
	Hangzhou	狗窠
	Ningbo	狗窠
	Wenzhou	狗窠
	Jinhua	狗窠
Xiang	Loudi	狗窠

Dialectal synonyms of 警察局 (“police station”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		警察局, 公安局 Mainland China
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	警察局, 警局
	Malaysia	警察局
	Singapore	警察局
Cantonese	Guangzhou	警察局, 警局
	Hong Kong	差館, 警署, 警局, 差局, 狗屋 derogatory
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	馬打寮
	Ipoh (Guangfu)	馬打寮
	Singapore (Guangfu)	馬打寮
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	警察局
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	警察局
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	警察局
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	警察局, 巡查局
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	警察局
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	巡查局
	Senai (Huiyang)	馬打寮
Southern Min	Tainan	警察局
	Penang (Hokkien)	balai
	Singapore (Hokkien)	馬打厝
	Manila (Hokkien)	兵局
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	馬打寮
	Singapore (Teochew)	馬打厝