話頭

Chinese

		spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said	head; (noun suffix)
trad. (話頭)		話	頭
simp. (话头)		话	头

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huàtóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄊㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waa⁶ tau⁴
• Eastern Min (BUC): uâ-tàu / uâ-*tàu
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ōe-thâu
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶gho-deu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huàtóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄊㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huàtóu
    • Wade–Giles: hua⁴-tʻou²
    • Yale: hwà-tóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huahtour
    • Palladius: хуатоу (xuatou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵¹ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huàtóur
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄊㄡˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huàtóur
    • Wade–Giles: hua⁴-tʻou²-ʼrh
    • Yale: hwà-tóur
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huahtourl
    • Palladius: хуатоур (xuatour)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵¹ tʰɤʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waa⁶ tau⁴
    • Yale: wah tàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waa⁶ tau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wa⁶ teo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː²² tʰɐu̯²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: uâ-tàu / uâ-*tàu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ua²⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(tʰ-)lau⁵³/, /ua²⁴²⁻⁵⁵ tʰau⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ōe-thâu
    • Tâi-lô: uē-thâu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oextaau
    • IPA (Taipei): /ue³³⁻¹¹ tʰau²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ue³³⁻²¹ tʰau²³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ue⁴¹⁻²² tʰau²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ue²²⁻²¹ tʰau²⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶gho-deu
    • MiniDict: gho^去 deu
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hho-deu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦo²² dɤ⁴⁴/

Noun

話頭

1. starting portion of one's speech
2. thread of discourse; subject under discussion
3. subject for others to gossip about, ridicule, etc.
4. (Xiamen, Quanzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien, Wu) utterance; spoken words; speech; discourse

Synonyms

• (utterance): 話語／话语 (huàyǔ)

Derived terms

• 踏話頭／踏话头

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (話頭):

• → Japanese: 話(わ)頭(とう) (watō)
• → Korean: 화두(話頭) (hwadu)

Korean

Hanja in this term
話	頭

Noun

話頭 • (hwadu) (hangeul 화두)

1. Hanja form^? of 화두 (“topic of discussion; (Zen Buddhism) koan”).