八哥

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (八哥)		八	哥
simp. #(八哥)		八	哥

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَبَّغَاء (babbaḡāʔ, “parrot”) (Luo, 1950).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bāgē

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚ ㄍㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baat³ go¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pat-ko

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bāgē → bāge (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚ ㄍㄜ → ㄅㄚ ˙ㄍㄜ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bage̊
    • Wade–Giles: pa¹-ko⁵
    • Yale: bā-ge
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ba.ge
    • Palladius: багэ (bagɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵ kɤ⁵⁵/ → /pä⁵⁵ g̊ə²/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (八哥兒／八哥儿)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bāgēr
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚ ㄍㄜㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bager
    • Wade–Giles: pa¹-ko¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: bā-gēr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bage'l
    • Palladius: багэр (bagɛr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵ kɤɻ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baat³ go¹
    • Yale: baat gō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baat⁸ go¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bad³ go¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːt̚³ kɔː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pat-ko
    • Tâi-lô: pat-ko
    • Phofsit Daibuun: patkoy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pat̚³²⁻⁴ ko⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pat̚⁵⁻²⁴ ko³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pat̚³²⁻⁵ ko⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pat̚³²⁻⁴ ko⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pat̚³²⁻⁴ kɤ⁴⁴/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 八哥

1. (colloquial) myna bird

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 八哥 (“myna”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		鴝鵒
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		鴝鵒, 八哥
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	八哥兒, 八八兒
	Taiwan	八哥
	Harbin	八哥兒
	Shenyang	八哥
	Singapore	八哥
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	八哥
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	八哥兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	八哥兒
	Wanrong	八哥
	Zhengzhou	八哥兒
	Xi'an	八哥兒
	Xining	八哥兒
	Xuzhou	八哥兒
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	八哥
	Lanzhou	八哥
	Ürümqi	八哥兒, 黑八兒
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	八哥, 八哥兒
	Wuhan	八哥
	Guiyang	八兒, 八哥
	Kunming	八哥
	Guilin	八哥
	Liuzhou	八哥, 八哥鳥, 鷯哥
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	八哥
	Yangzhou	八哥子
	Hefei	八哥子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	鷯哥
	Hong Kong	鷯哥
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	鷯哥
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	鷯哥
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	鷯哥
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	鷯哥仔
	Macau	鷯哥
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	鷯哥
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	鷯哥
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	鷯哥
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	鷯哥
	Foshan	鷯哥
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	釣哥
	Foshan (Shunde)	鷯哥
	Foshan (Sanshui)	鷯哥
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	鷯哥
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	鷯哥
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	鷯哥
	Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka)	鷯哥
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	鷯哥
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	鷯哥
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	鷯哥
	Taishan	鷯哥
	Kaiping (Chikan)	鷯哥
	Enping (Niujiang)	鷯哥
	Heshan (Yayao)	鷯哥
	Dongguan	鷯哥
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	鷯哥
	Shaoguan	鷯哥
	Yunfu	鷯哥
	Yangjiang	鷯哥, 鷯仔
	Xinyi	鷯哥
	Lianjiang	鷯哥
	Nanning	鷯哥
	Wuzhou	鷯哥, 八哥
	Yulin	鷯哥
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	阿鷯
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	鷯哥
	Ipoh (Guangfu)	八哥
	Singapore (Guangfu)	八哥, 鷯哥
Gan	Nanchang	八哥子
	Lichuan	八兒
	Pingxiang	哵哵鳥仔, 哵哵鳥, 哵哵仔
Hakka	Meixian	烏鷯哥
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	鷯哥
	Huiyang	鷯哥
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	鷯哥
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	鷯哥
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	鷯哥
	Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua)	鷯哥
	Yudu	烏葉子
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	白翼仔, 烏鷯
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	白翼仔, 烏鷯
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	白翼仔, 烏鷯
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	白翼, 烏鷯, 烏鷯哥
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	白翼仔, 烏鷯仔
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	八哥鳥
	Hong Kong	鷯哥
	Luchuan (Daqiao)	鷯哥
	Senai (Huiyang)	鷯哥
	Singkawang	烏鷯哥
Huizhou	Jixi	八哥
Jin	Taiyuan	八哥
	Xinzhou	八哥兒
Northern Min	Jian'ou	八八仔
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	化化
	Fuqing	八八
Southern Min	Xiamen	鵁鴒
	Quanzhou	鵁鴒, 烏肉
	Zhangzhou	鵁鴒
	Taipei	鵁鴒
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	鵁鴒
	Kaohsiung	鵁鴒
	Yilan	鵁鴒
	Changhua (Lukang)	鵁鴒
	Taichung	鵁鴒
	Tainan	鵁鴒
	Hsinchu	鵁鴒
	Kinmen	鵁鴒
	Penghu (Magong)	鵁鴒
	Penang (Hokkien)	鵁鴒
	Singapore (Hokkien)	鵁鴒
	Pingnan (Shangdu)	鷯哥
	Chaozhou	鷯哥
	Shantou	鷯哥
	Jieyang	鷯哥
	Haifeng	鳥哥仔
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	鷯哥
	Haikou	鷯哥
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	鷯哥, 把巴
Northern Pinghua	Guilin (Dahe)	鷯哥
Wu	Shanghai	八哥
	Shanghai (Chongming)	八哥
	Suzhou	八哥
	Danyang	八哥
	Hangzhou	八哥兒
	Ningbo	八哥
	Wenzhou	八哥兒
	Jinhua	八哥兒
Xiang	Changsha	八哥子
	Xiangtan	八樂子
	Loudi	哵哵唧
	Shuangfeng	牛阿八, 阿八
	Quanzhou	八哥鳥

Derived terms

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