病夫

Chinese

		ailment; illness; disease ailment; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect	husband; man
simp. and trad. (病夫)		病	夫

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bìngfū

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄥˋ ㄈㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): beng⁶ fu¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pēng-hu / pīⁿ-hu / pēⁿ-hu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ben⁷ hu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bìngfū
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄥˋ ㄈㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bìngfu
    • Wade–Giles: ping⁴-fu¹
    • Yale: bìng-fū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: binqfu
    • Palladius: бинфу (binfu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ⁵¹ fu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: beng⁶ fu¹
    • Yale: behng fū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: beng⁶ fu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: béng⁶ fu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛːŋ²² fuː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pēng-hu
    • Tâi-lô: pīng-hu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pexnghw
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piɪŋ⁴¹⁻²² hu³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /piɪŋ²²⁻²¹ hu⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pīⁿ-hu
    • Tâi-lô: pīnn-hu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvixhw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pĩ²²⁻²¹ hu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pĩ⁴¹⁻²² hu³³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pēⁿ-hu
    • Tâi-lô: pēnn-hu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvexhw
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɛ̃²²⁻²¹ hu⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ben⁷ hu¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pṳ̄ⁿ hu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɯ̃¹¹ hu³³/

Noun

病夫

1. (derogatory) sick man; invalid (in a sarcastic tone)

Synonyms

• (Cantonese, Hakka, Teochew) 病鬼 (bìngguǐ)
• (Cantonese) 病軍／病军, 病貓／病猫 (bìngmāo)
• (Hokkien) 病丁

Derived terms

• 東亞病夫／东亚病夫 (Dōngyà bìngfū)