叉仔

Chinese

		to cross; be stuck; to diverge to cross; be stuck; to diverge; to open (as legs); fork; pitchfork; prong; pick; cross; intersect	minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility
simp. and trad. (叉仔)		叉	仔

Pronunciation

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhâ-é
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhe-á

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• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhâ-é
    • Hakka Romanization System: ca´ e`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ca¹ e³
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰa²⁴ e³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Tainan, Sanxia)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhe-á
    • Tâi-lô: tshe-á
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhe'ar
    • IPA (Tainan): /t͡sʰe⁴⁴⁻³³ a⁵³/

Noun

叉仔

1. (Hakka, Sanxia Hokkien) fork (for eating)
2. (Taiwanese Hokkien) cross; X mark

   拍叉仔 [Taiwanese Hokkien]  ―  phah chhe-á [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to mark with an X

3. (Taiwanese Hokkien) forked pole

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 叉子 (“fork (for eating)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		叉子
Mandarin	Beijing	叉兒, 叉子
	Taiwan	叉子
	Ürümqi	叉叉子
	Yangzhou	叉子
	Malaysia	叉
	Singapore	叉
Cantonese	Guangzhou	叉
	Hong Kong	叉
	Singapore (Guangfu)	叉
Gan	Pingxiang	叉子
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	叉仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	攕仔
	Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian)	刺仔
	Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian)	插仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	插仔, 叉仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	插
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	插仔, 叉仔
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	攕子, 插子
Huizhou	Jixi	叉
Southern Min	Xiamen	攕仔
	Zhangzhou	攕仔
	Taipei	攕仔
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	攕仔
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	攕仔, 叉仔
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	攕仔
	Kaohsiung	攕仔
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	攕仔
	Kaohsiung (Hongmaogang, Siaogang)	攕仔, 鑿仔
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	攕仔
	Kaohsiung (Tianliao)	攕仔
	Yilan (Toucheng)	攕仔
	Tainan	攕仔
	Tainan (Anping)	攕仔
	Kinmen	攕仔
	Penghu (Magong)	攕仔
	Penghu (Xiyu)	攕仔
	Penang (Hokkien)	攕仔
	Singapore (Hokkien)	攕
	Manila (Hokkien)	攕仔
	Medan (Hokkien)	攕仔
	Chaozhou	叉
	Singapore (Teochew)	叉
	Leizhou	叉
	Singapore (Hainanese)	戳
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	叉
Wu	Shanghai	叉
	Hangzhou	叉

Dialectal synonyms of 叉 (“cross (for marking as wrong or deletion)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		叉
Mandarin	Beijing	叉兒, 叉子
	Taiwan	叉
	Xi'an	叉叉兒, 錯號兒
	Ürümqi	叉叉子
	Guilin	叉
	Yangzhou	叉子
	Nanjing	叉
	Malaysia	叉
	Singapore	叉
Cantonese	Guangzhou	交叉
	Hong Kong	交叉
Huizhou	Jixi	叉
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	叉
Southern Min	Xiamen	叉
	Quanzhou	叉
	Zhangzhou	叉
	Tainan	叉仔
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	叉