出珠

Chinese

		to go out; to come out; to occur to go out; to come out; to occur; to produce; to go beyond; to rise; to put forth; to happen; (a measure word for dramas, plays, or operas)	pearl; bead
simp. and trad. (出珠)		出	珠

Pronunciation

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhut-chu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cug⁴ zu¹

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Yongchun, Lukang, Sanxia, Taipei, Tainan, Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhut-chu
    • Tâi-lô: tshut-tsu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhutzw
    • IPA (Xiamen, Yongchun, Taipei, Tainan, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰut̚³²⁻⁴ t͡su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰut̚³²⁻⁵ t͡su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Lukang): /t͡sʰut̚⁵ t͡su³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cug⁴ zu¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshuk tsu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰuk̚²⁻⁴ t͡su³³/

Verb

出珠

1. (Southern Min) to have smallpox

   • 爾箇子出痘未 [Teochew, trad.]
     尔个子出痘未 [Teochew, simp.]

     From: 1841, William Dean, First Lessons in the Tie-chiw Dialect, “Diseases”

     le² gai⁷ gian² cug⁴ zu¹ bhuê⁷ [Peng'im]

     has your child had the small pox

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 出天花 (“to have smallpox ”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		出天花
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	出痘兒, 出花兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	出天花兒, 當差事
	Wanrong	出痘兒, 帶花兒 euphemistic, 變狗 derogatory
	Xining	出大花兒
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	出花
Southwestern Mandarin	Guiyang	出大工
	Liuzhou	出痘, 出水痘
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	出天花, 出天喜
	Yangzhou	出天花
Cantonese	Guangzhou	出痘
Gan	Nanchang	出大喜事, 出喜事
	Pingxiang	出大生芽
Huizhou	Jixi	出牛痘
Northern Min	Jian'ou	出痘
Southern Min	Xiamen	出珠
	Quanzhou	出汞
	Jinjiang	出汞
	Yongchun	出珠, 出梅
	Zhangzhou	出珠
	Taipei	出珠
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	出珠
	Kaohsiung	出珠
	Yilan	出水珠
	Changhua (Lukang)	出珠
	Tainan	出珠
	Hsinchu	著烏珠
	Kinmen	出癖
	Singapore (Hokkien)	出梅
	Manila (Hokkien)	出汞
	Haikou	出花
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	出天花
Wu	Shanghai	出痘子
	Danyang	出天花
Xiang	Changsha	出麻子

References

• Fielde, Adele Marion (1883) “痘 (cu)”, in A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect, Arranged According to Syllables and Tones, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 68