企顛溜

Chinese

		plan a project; stand on tiptoe	inverted; jolt; top	slip away; to skate
trad. (企顛溜)		企	顛	溜
simp. (企颠溜)		企	颠	溜

Pronunciation

• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): kyo⁴ deng¹ liu¹ / kya⁴ deng¹ liu¹

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• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: kyo⁴ deng¹ liu¹ [Phonetic: kyo¹ leng⁵ niu¹]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰyɒ⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(t-)lɛŋ⁵³³⁻²¹ ^(l-)niu⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: kya⁴ deng¹ liu¹ [Phonetic: kya¹ leng⁵ niu¹]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰya⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(t-)lɛŋ⁵³³⁻²¹ ^(l-)niu⁵³³/

Verb

企顛溜

1. (Puxian Min, of a person) to stand on one's hands or head; to do a handstand

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 倒立 (“to do a handstand; to stand upside down”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		倒立, 拿大頂, 拿頂
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	倒立
Cantonese	Guangzhou	倒豎蔥, 倒掟頭
	Hong Kong	倒豎蔥, 倒立
Hakka	Meixian	𤊶翻企, 𤊶倒企, 縱直竹
Southern Min	Xiamen	徛飛魚, 倒栽
	Quanzhou	徛飛魚
	Zhangzhou	徛騰
	Tainan	倒栽, 倒頭徛
	Shantou	顛倒徛, 顛倒頭
Puxian Min	Putian	企顛溜
	Xianyou	企顛溜
Wu	Shanghai	丁倒立, 豎蜻蜓, 豎煙囪
	Shanghai (Jiading)	頂倒裡立, 豎蜻蜓, 頂倒爬

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “企颠溜”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 340.