冬粉

Chinese

		phonetic	dust; powder
trad. (冬粉)		冬	粉
simp. #(冬粉)		冬	粉
alternative forms		東粉／东粉

Etymology

Hokkien 冬粉 (tang-hún), also historically written as 東粉 / 东粉 (tang-hún), is historically an ellipsis of 山東粉 / 山东粉 (soaⁿ-tang-hún) as per Ogawa (1932).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dōngfěn

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄥ ㄈㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dung¹ fan²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tang-hún

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dōngfěn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄥ ㄈㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dongfěn
    • Wade–Giles: tung¹-fên³
    • Yale: dūng-fěn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dongfeen
    • Palladius: дунфэнь (dunfɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ⁵⁵ fən²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dung¹ fan²
    • Yale: dūng fán
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dung¹ fan²
    • Guangdong Romanization: dung¹ fen²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ⁵⁵ fɐn³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tang-hún
    • Tâi-lô: tang-hún
    • Phofsit Daibuun: danghuon
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /taŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hun⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /taŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hun⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /taŋ³³ hun⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /taŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hun⁵³/

Noun

冬粉

1. (chiefly Hokkien, Taiwan, Singapore) vermicelli cellophane noodles (historically made from mung bean starch) (Classifier: 把)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 粉絲 (“cellophane noodles”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		粉絲
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	粉, 粉絲
	Taiwan	粉絲, 冬粉
	Harbin	粉絲
	Singapore	冬粉
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	細粉條兒, 粉絲
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	粉絲, 粉絲子
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	粉絲兒
	Wanrong	粉絲
	Xi'an	粉絲, 粉絲兒
	Xining	粉絲兒
	Xuzhou	細粉
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	粉絲
	Lanzhou	粉絲子
	Ürümqi	粉絲兒
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	粉絲, 粉, 粉條, 條粉
	Wuhan	線粉, 粉條
	Guilin	粉絲
	Liuzhou	粉絲
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	粉絲, 索粉
	Yangzhou	粉絲, 索粉
	Hefei	粉絲
Cantonese	Guangzhou	粉絲
	Hong Kong	粉絲
	Hong Kong (San Tin; Weitou)	來絲, 粉仔
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin; Weitou)	粉絲
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	來絲仔
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	粉仔
	Macau	粉絲
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	粉絲
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	粉絲
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	粉絲
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	粉絲
	Foshan	粉絲
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	粉仔
	Foshan (Shunde)	粉絲
	Foshan (Sanshui)	粉絲
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	粉絲
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	粉絲
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	珍絲
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	粉絲
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	粉絲
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	粉絲
	Taishan	細粉
	Kaiping (Chikan)	細粉
	Enping (Niujiang)	細粉
	Heshan (Yayao)	粉絲
	Dongguan	來絲
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	粉絲
	Yangjiang	鬚粉
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	粉絲, 冬粉
	Singapore (Guangfu)	粉絲
Gan	Nanchang	線粉
Hakka	Meixian	粉絲, 麵線
	Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua)	粉絲
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	來絲
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	粉絲
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	粉仔
	Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua)	米絲
	Yudu	粉絲
	Hong Kong	來絲仔
	Senai (Huiyang)	冬粉
Huizhou	Jixi	粉絲
Jin	Taiyuan	粉絲, 細粉, 細粉絲
	Xinzhou	粉絲子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	粉絲, 山東粉
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	粉絲, 山東粉
	Fuqing	山東粉
	Matsu	山東粉
Southern Min	Xiamen	冬粉, 粉絲
	Quanzhou	冬粉
	Zhangzhou	冬粉, 粉仔
	Penang (Hokkien)	冬粉
	Singapore (Hokkien)	冬粉
	Manila (Hokkien)	冬粉, 山東粉
	Chaozhou	粉絲
	Jieyang	粉條, 粉絲
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	豆簽, 冬粉
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	珍絲
	Zhongshan (Sanxiang)	珍絲
Wu	Shanghai	線粉, 粉絲
	Shanghai (Chongming)	索粉, 線粉
	Suzhou	線粉, 索粉 wet
	Danyang	索粉
	Hangzhou	線粉
	Ningbo	線粉
	Wenzhou	洋粉
Xiang	Changsha	湘粉, 粉絲, 南粉, 西粉 less common
	Shuangfeng	南粉
	Hengyang	粉絲

Descendants

• → English: tang hoon
• → Malay: tanghun

Further reading

• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “東粉”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “山東粉”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[2] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC