甜粿

Chinese

		sweet	cooked rice for making cake
trad. (甜粿)		甜	粿
simp. #(甜粿)		甜	粿
alternative forms		甜餜／甜馃

Pronunciation

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tiⁿ-ké / tiⁿ-kóe / tiⁿ-kér

  (Teochew, Peng'im): diam⁵ guê²

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Taipei, Xiamen, Magong, Hsinchu, Philippines, Jinjiang, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiⁿ-ké
    • Tâi-lô: tinn-ké
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dvi'kea
    • IPA (Singapore): /tĩ⁴⁴⁻²² ke⁴²/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tĩ⁴⁴⁻²² ke⁵³/
    • IPA (Philippines, Jinjiang): /tĩ³³ ke⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tĩ⁴⁴⁻³³ ke⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou, Yilan, Tainan, Taichung, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiⁿ-kóe
    • Tâi-lô: tinn-kué
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dvi'koea
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tĩ⁴⁴⁻²² kue⁵³/
    • IPA (Singapore): /tĩ⁴⁴⁻²² kue⁴²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tĩ⁴⁴⁻³³ kue⁴¹/
    • IPA (Yilan, Tainan): /tĩ⁴⁴⁻³³ kue⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Lukang, Sanxia, Kinmen, Hsinchu, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiⁿ-kér
    • Tâi-lô: tinn-kér
    • IPA (Kinmen): /tĩ⁴⁴⁻²² kə⁵³/
    • IPA (Singapore): /tĩ⁴⁴⁻²² kə⁴²/
    • IPA (Lukang): /tĩ³³ kə⁵⁵/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tĩ³³ kə⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: diam⁵ guê²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tiâm kué
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiam⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kue⁵²/

Noun

甜粿

1. (Southern Min) nian gao (a Chinese New Year's cake made of glutinous rice flour)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 年糕 (“nian gao (New Year cake)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		年糕
Mandarin	Taiwan	年糕
	Singapore	年糕
Cantonese	Guangzhou	年糕
	Hong Kong	年糕
	Singapore (Guangfu)	年糕
Gan	Nanchang	年糕
Hakka	Meixian	甜粄
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	甜粄
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	甜粄
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	甜粄
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	甜粄
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	甜粄
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	甜粄
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	糖粿
Southern Min	Xiamen	甜粿, 炊粿 steamed
	Quanzhou	甜粿, 炊粿 steamed
	Jinjiang	甜粿, 炊粿 steamed
	Zhangzhou	甜粿, 炊粿 steamed
	Taipei	甜粿
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	甜粿
	Kaohsiung	甜粿
	Yilan	甜粿
	Changhua (Lukang)	甜粿
	Taichung	甜粿
	Tainan	甜粿
	Hsinchu	甜粿
	Kinmen	甜粿
	Penghu (Magong)	甜粿
	Penang (Hokkien)	甜粿
	Singapore (Hokkien)	甜粿
	Manila (Hokkien)	甜粿
	Chaozhou	甜粿
	Shantou	甜粿
	Shantou (Chenghai)	甜粿
	Jieyang	甜粿
	Ho Chi Minh City (Teochew)	甜粿
	Singapore (Teochew)	甜粿
	Wenchang	甜粄
	Haikou	甜粄
	Singapore (Hainanese)	甜粄
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	年糕
Wu	Shanghai	年糕
	Wenzhou	糖糕, 年糕

Descendants

• → Bikol Central: tikoy
• → Burmese: တီကေ့ (tike.)
• → Cebuano: tikoy
• → Chavacano: tikoy
• → Hiligaynon: tikoy
• → Tagalog: tikoy
• → Waray-Waray: tikoy