雪茄

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (雪茄)		雪	茄
simp. #(雪茄)		雪	茄

Etymology

Borrowed from English cigar via a Southern variety of Chinese.

Folk etymology commonly describes poet Xu Zhimo (1897–1931) as coining this translation in 1924, in a casual conversation with Rabindranath Tagore, on the grounds that the cigar is similar to lotus stem (茄) and the ash is similar to snow (雪). However, this term had already been used in 《出使英法義比四國日記續》, a late 19^th century text, and Officialdom Unmasked, a 1903 novel.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuějiā

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄝˇ ㄐㄧㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syut³ gaa¹, syut³ kaa¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): siet-kâ / siè-chia
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): soat-ka

  (Teochew, Peng'im): soh⁴ gia¹

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁷shiq-ga

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xuějiā
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄝˇ ㄐㄧㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syuějia
    • Wade–Giles: hsüeh³-chia¹
    • Yale: sywě-jyā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheuejia
    • Palladius: сюэцзя (sjueczja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xuějiār
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄝˇ ㄐㄧㄚㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syuějiar
    • Wade–Giles: hsüeh³-chia¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: sywě-jyār
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheuejial
    • Palladius: сюэцзяр (sjueczjar)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑɻ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: syut³ gaa¹, syut³ kaa¹
    • Yale: syut gā, syut kā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: syt⁸ gaa¹, syt⁸ kaa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xud³ ga¹, xud³ ka¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syːt̚³ kaː⁵⁵/, /syːt̚³ kʰaː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: siet-kâ / siè-chia
    • Hakka Romanization System: xied` ga´ / xieˇ jia
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xiad⁵ ga¹ / xie² jia⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /si̯et̚² ka²⁴/, /si̯e¹¹ t͡si̯a⁵⁵/

Note: siè-chia - from Mandarin.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soat-ka
    • Tâi-lô: suat-ka
    • Phofsit Daibuun: soatkaf
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /suat̚³²⁻⁴ ka⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: soh⁴ gia¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: soh kia
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /soʔ²⁻⁴ kia³³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁷shiq-ga
    • MiniDict: shih^入 ga
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴xiq-ga
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕiɪʔ³³ ɡa⁴⁴/

Noun

雪茄

1. (～煙) cigar (Classifier: 支 m c)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 雪茄 (“cigar”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		雪茄, 雪茄煙, 捲煙
Mandarin	Taiwan	雪茄
	Jinan	雪茄
	Wanrong	捲煙
	Xi'an	捲煙
	Nanning (Wuming)	雪茄
Cantonese	Guangzhou	呂宋煙
	Hong Kong	雪茄
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	雪茄
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	雪茄
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	雪茄
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	雪茄, 珠律
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	雪茄
	Móng Cái	雪茄
Hakka	Meixian	麻姑煙
	Yudu	呂宋煙
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	雪茄
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	雪茄
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	雪茄
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	雪茄
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	雪茄
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	雪茄
	Senai (Huiyang)	珠律
Southern Min	Xiamen	珠律, 色牙
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	珠律
	Quanzhou	珠律
	Zhangzhou	珠律, 老果
	Penang (Hokkien)	珠律
	Singapore (Hokkien)	珠律
	Jieyang	珠律, 雪茄
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	珠律
Wu	Shanghai	雪茄煙, 雪茄