蜊仔

Chinese

		clam	minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility
simp. and trad. (蜊仔)		蜊	仔
alternative forms		蟟仔

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lâ-á / lâi-á / lâi--á / liô-á

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Hsinchu, Lukang, Sanxia, Yilan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lâ-á
    • Tâi-lô: lâ-á
    • Phofsit Daibuun: la'ar
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /la¹³⁻²² a⁵³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /la²⁴⁻²² a⁵³/
    • IPA (Lukang): /la²⁴⁻²² a⁵⁵/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /la²³⁻³³ a⁴¹/
    • IPA (Tainan, Yilan): /la²⁴⁻³³ a⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lâi-á
    • Tâi-lô: lâi-á
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lai'ar
    • IPA (Taipei): /lai²⁴⁻³³ a⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Kinmen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lâi--á
    • Tâi-lô: lâi--á
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liô-á
    • Tâi-lô: liô-á
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lioi'ar
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lio¹³⁻²² a⁵³/

Noun

蜊仔

1. (Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) basket clam (Corbiculidae)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 蛤蜊 (“clam”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		蛤蜊
Mandarin	Beijing	蛤蜊
	Taiwan	蛤蜊
	Jinan	蛤拉
	Luoyang	海蚌兒
	Ürümqi	蚌殼子
	Yangzhou	蛤蜊
	Malaysia	啦啦
	Singapore	啦啦
Cantonese	Guangzhou	蜆
	Hong Kong	蜆
	Dongguan	蛤蜊
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	啦啦
Hakka	Meixian	蜆仔, 順𧋓仔
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	蜆仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	蜆仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	蜆仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	蜆
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	蜆仔, 蜆
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	蜆子
Jin	Taiyuan	海鉢鉢
Northern Min	Jian'ou	蛤蜊
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	蛤蜊
Southern Min	Xiamen	蚶, 蜊仔, 沙蜊, 蟯
	Quanzhou	蚶, 沙蜊, 蟯
	Zhangzhou	蚶, 蜊仔, 蟯
	Tainan	蚶仔, 蜊仔, 蟯仔, 粉蟯
	Penang (Hokkien)	蜊蜊
	Singapore (Hokkien)	蚶, 蜊蜊, 沙蜊
	Manila (Hokkien)	蚶
Wu	Shanghai	蛤蜊
	Shanghai (Chongming)	麻蚶子
	Suzhou	阿蜊
	Hangzhou	蛤蜊
	Ningbo	蛤皮, 圓蛤
	Wenzhou	蚶兒
Xiang	Changsha	湖殼子

References

• “Entry #10035”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.