提子乾

Chinese

		grape; a kind of grape from the United States, which is larger than ordinary grapes	dry; clean; male dry; clean; male; strong; one of the Eight Trigrams; surname
trad. (提子乾)		提子	乾
simp. (提子干)		提子	干

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tai⁴ zi² gon¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tai⁴ zi² gon¹
    • Yale: tàih jí gōn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tai⁴ dzi² gon¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tei⁴ ji² gon¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɐi̯²¹ t͡siː³⁵ kɔːn⁵⁵/

Noun

提子乾

1. (Cantonese) raisin
   • 2021, “勁浪漫 超溫馨 [hyperromantic]”, 黃偉文 [Wyman Wong] (lyrics), 湯令山 [Gareth.T] and 范梓謙 [Teddy Fan] (music)‎^[1]performed by 湯令山 [Gareth.T]:

     提子乾兩份搣　窮但超溫馨 [Cantonese, trad.]
     提子干两份搣　穷但超温馨 [Cantonese, simp.]

     tai⁴ zi² gon¹ loeng⁵ fan^6-2 mit¹, kung⁴ daan⁶ ciu¹ wan¹ hing¹ [Jyutping]

     Sharing the raisins between us, poor but super warm and cozy

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 葡萄乾 (“raisin”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		葡萄乾
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	葡萄乾兒
	Taiwan	葡萄乾
	Singapore	葡萄乾
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	葡萄乾
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	葡萄乾
	Yangzhou	葡萄乾子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	葡提子乾
	Hong Kong	提子乾
	Kaiping (Chikan)	葡提子
	Dongguan	葡萄乾
Hakka	Meixian	提仔乾
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	葡萄乾
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	葡萄乾
Southern Min	Xiamen	葡萄乾
	Tainan	葡萄乾
	Singapore (Hokkien)	葡萄乾
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	葡萄乾
Wu	Suzhou	葡萄乾