收皮

Chinese

		to receive; to accept; to collect to receive; to accept; to collect; in care of (used on address line after name)	leather; skin; fur
simp. and trad. (收皮)		收	皮

Etymology

Said to be originated from the gambling game Fan-Tan.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau¹ pei⁴

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sau¹ pei⁴
    • Yale: sāu pèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau¹ pei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo¹ péi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯⁵⁵ pʰei̯²¹/

Verb

收⫽皮 (verb-object) (Cantonese)

1. (vulgar) to shut up

   收皮啦你！ [Guangzhou Cantonese]  ―  sau¹ pei⁴ laa¹ nei⁵! [Jyutping]  ―  Why don't you shut up!

2. (vulgar) to call it a day
3. (vulgar) to be done for; to be finished

   呢間公司冇乜生意，都應該就快收皮㗎喇。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   呢间公司冇乜生意，都应该就快收皮㗎喇。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   ne¹ gaan¹ gung¹ si¹ mou⁵ mat¹ saang¹ ji³, dou¹ jing¹ goi¹ zau⁶ faai³ sau¹ pei⁴ gaa³ laa³. [Jyutping]

   Business is slow for this company. It will probably go bankrupt quite soon.

   條友係咪已經收咗皮喇？我好似好耐冇聽過佢個名囉喎。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   条友系咪已经收咗皮喇？我好似好耐冇听过佢个名啰㖞。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   tiu⁴ jau^5-2 hai⁶ mai⁶ ji⁵ ging¹ sau¹ zo² pei⁴ laa³? ngo⁵ hou² ci⁵ hou² noi⁶ mou⁵ teng¹ gwo³ keoi⁵ go³ meng^4-2 lo³ wo³. [Jyutping]

   Was that lad done for? I haven't heard about his name for a long time.

4. (vulgar) to finish off (someone)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 住口 (“to shut up; to stop talking”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		住口, 住嘴, 閉嘴
Mandarin	Taiwan	閉嘴
	Singapore	閉嘴, 靜靜
Cantonese	Guangzhou	收聲, 收口, 收嗲, 收皮
	Hong Kong	收聲, 收口, 收嗲, 收皮
	Singapore (Guangfu)	收聲, 收嗲
Hakka	Meixian	合嘴
Southern Min	Tainan	恬去
	Penang (Hokkien)	恬
	Singapore (Hokkien)	恬
	Leizhou	關喙

Descendants

• → English: collect skin (calque)

References

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