花大姐

Chinese

		flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern	eldest sister
trad. (花大姐)		花	大姐
simp. #(花大姐)		花	大姐

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huādàjiě

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚ ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧㄝˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faa¹ daai⁶ ze²
• Jin (Wiktionary): hua¹ da³ jie²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huādàjiě
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚ ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧㄝˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huadàjiě
    • Wade–Giles: hua¹-ta⁴-chieh³
    • Yale: hwā-dà-jyě
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huadahjiee
    • Palladius: хуадацзе (xuadacze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵⁵ tä⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faa¹ daai⁶ ze²
    • Yale: fā daaih jé
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faa¹ daai⁶ dze²
    • Guangdong Romanization: fa¹ dai⁶ zé²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faː⁵⁵ taːi̯²² t͡sɛː³⁵/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: hua¹ da³ jie²
    • Sinological IPA (old-style, no sandhi): /xua¹¹ ta⁴⁵ t͡ɕie⁵³/

Noun

花大姐

1. ladybird; ladybug (Classifier: 隻／只)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 瓢蟲 (“ladybird, ladybug”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		瓢蟲
Mandarin	Harbin	花大姐
	Yantai (Muping)	花大姐
	Jinan	花大姐
	Wanrong	花花媳婦
	Xi'an	花裹肚兒
	Ürümqi	花媳婦兒, 花大姐
	Wuhan	花殼子蟲, 殼子蟲
	Chengdu	瓢蟲, 花姑娘兒
	Guiyang	花姑娘
	Liuzhou	瓢蟲
	Yangzhou	瓢蟲, 花烏龜
	Nanjing	花和尚
Cantonese	Dongguan	花姑娘
Hakka	Meixian	花蘿蟲
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	花蛄仔
Jin	Taiyuan	花大姐
	Xinzhou	花媳婦兒
Southern Min	Xiamen	烏龜仔
	Quanzhou	烏龜仔
	Zhangzhou	烏龜仔
	Tainan	珠仔龜 GT
	Chaozhou	紅先生
	Jieyang	紅先生
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	瓢蟲
Wu	Suzhou	花姑娘
	Danyang	花姑娘
	Hangzhou	瓢瓢蟲兒
	Ningbo	瓢蟲
	Jinhua	花烏龜兒, 硬殼蟲
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)