料子

Chinese

		material; stuff; grain material; stuff; grain; feed; to expect; to anticipate; to guess	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
trad. (料子)		料	子
simp. #(料子)		料	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liàozi

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄠˋ ˙ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): liu^6-2 zi²
• Gan (Wiktionary): lieu⁵ zi
• Jin (Wiktionary): liau³ zeh

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liàozi
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄠˋ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: liàozi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: liao⁴-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: lyàu-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liaw.tzy
    • Palladius: ляоцзы (ljaoczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹ d͡z̥z̩¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: liu^6-2 zi²
    • Yale: líu jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: liu^6-2 dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: liu^6-2 ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liːu̯²²⁻³⁵ t͡siː³⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: lieu⁵ zi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liɛu¹¹ t͡sz̩¹/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: liau³ zeh
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /liau⁴⁵ t͡səʔ⁴/

Noun

料子

1. material for making clothes
2. woollen fabric
3. (figurative) material (person or thing suited for a certain purpose); makings
4. (regional, slang) heroin (powerful and addictive drug)

Synonyms

• (woollen fabric):

Dialectal synonyms of 呢子 (“woollen fabric”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		呢子, 毛呢
Mandarin	Jinan	呢子
	Wanrong	呢子
	Xi'an	呢子
	Guiyang	料子
	Yangzhou	呢子
	Nanjing	呢子
Gan	Nanchang	呢子
	Lichuan	呢子
Huizhou	Jixi	呢
Jin	Taiyuan	呢子
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	呢
Southern Min	Xiamen	呢
Wu	Shanghai	呢
	Ningbo	呢

• (material; makings): 料 (liào)

Dialectal synonyms of 海洛因 (“heroin”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		海洛因, 海洛英
Mandarin	Beijing	白麵兒, 老海
	Taiwan	海洛因, 白粉
	Luoyang	白麵兒, 老海
	Xi'an	白麵兒
	Ürümqi	白麵兒
	Yangzhou	白麵子
	Singapore	白粉
	Dagudi (Maliba)	白粉
	Reshuitang (Longling)	白粉, 粉藥
	Mae Salong (Lancang)	白粉, 粉藥
	Mae Sai (Tengchong)	白粉
Cantonese	Guangzhou	白粉
	Hong Kong	海洛英, 白粉, 粉, 灰, 四仔
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	白粉
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	白粉
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	白粉
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	海洛英
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	白粉
	Móng Cái	白粉
Hakka	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	白粉
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	海洛因
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	海洛因
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	海洛因
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	海洛因
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	海洛因
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	海洛因
	Senai (Huiyang)	白粉
Jin	Taiyuan	料子
	Xinzhou	料子
Southern Min	Xiamen	海洛因
	Singapore (Hokkien)	白粉
	Chaozhou	白粉
	Shantou	白粉
	Jieyang	白粉
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	白粉
	Pontianak (Teochew)	下洛因
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	白粉
Wu	Danyang	白粉, 白麵
	Wenzhou	白粉

Derived terms

• 料子鬼