刁工

Chinese

		artful; wicked	work; worker; skill work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labour
simp. and trad. (刁工)		刁	工
alternative forms		挑工 超工

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thiau-kang / tiau-kang

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiau-kang
    • Tâi-lô: thiau-kang
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tiau'kafng
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Philippines): /tʰiau³³ kaŋ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Singapore): /tʰiau⁴⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰiau⁴⁴⁻³³ kaŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiau-kang
    • Tâi-lô: tiau-kang
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diau'kafng
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiau⁴⁴⁻³³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

Adverb

刁工

1. (Southern Min) specially
2. (Southern Min) deliberately; on purpose

Synonyms

• (specially):

Dialectal synonyms of 特地 (“specially”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		特地, 特意
Mandarin	Beijing	特意, 淨意, 特特兒的
	Jinan	特為意兒的, 特為的
	Xi'an	專門兒, 專意
	Wuhan	特為
	Chengdu	專門, 利編
	Yangzhou	特為
	Hefei	特地, 特此
	Singapore	特地, 特意
Cantonese	Guangzhou	特登
	Hong Kong	特登
	Yangjiang	特登
Gan	Nanchang	特事, 特意
Hakka	Meixian	特事
Jin	Taiyuan	專門, 專意
Northern Min	Jian'ou	一勁勁
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	特特意, 特意
Southern Min	Xiamen	刁工, 刁持
	Singapore (Hokkien)	刁工
	Chaozhou	專門
Wu	Suzhou	特為
	Wenzhou	特特能
Xiang	Changsha	罷事, 特事
	Shuangfeng	特為, 特話

• (deliberately):

• 刁意故 (Hokkien)
• 刁故意 (Hokkien)
• 利邊／利边 (ni⁴ bian¹) (Sichuanese)
• 刻意 (kèyì)
• 存心 (cúnxīn)
• 專登／专登 (zyun¹ dang¹) (Cantonese)
• 專門／专门 (Cantonese, Hakka, Jin)
• 成心 (chéngxīn)
• 故意 (gùyì)
• 有心 (yǒuxīn)
• 有意 (yǒuyì)
• 特事 (tet⁷ si) (Gan)
• 特為／特为 (⁸deq-we) (Wu)
• 特登 (dak⁶ dang¹) (Cantonese)
• 罷是／罢是 (ba⁵ shr⁵) (Xiang)
• 迭為／迭为 (⁸diq-we) (Wu)