好色

Chinese

		good; well; be fond of	colour; dice; look colour; dice; look; appearance
trad. (好色)		好	色
simp. #(好色)		好	色

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hàosè

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˋ ㄙㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hou³ sik¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): hau-set
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hòⁿ-sek / hòⁿ-siak

  (Teochew, Peng'im): haon³ sêg⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hàosè
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˋ ㄙㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hàosè
    • Wade–Giles: hao⁴-sê⁴
    • Yale: hàu-sè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hawseh
    • Palladius: хаосэ (xaosɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ sɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hou³ sik¹
    • Yale: hou sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hou³ sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: hou³ xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯³³ sɪk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hau-set
    • Hakka Romanization System: hau sed`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: hau⁴ sed⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /hau̯⁵⁵ set̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hòⁿ-sek
    • Tâi-lô: hònn-sik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hvorseg
    • IPA (Taipei): /hɔ̃¹¹⁻⁵³ siɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔ̃²¹⁻⁴¹ siɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hɔ̃²¹⁻⁵³ siɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hòⁿ-siak
    • Tâi-lô: hònn-siak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hvorsiag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔ̃⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ siak̚⁵/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: haon³ sêg⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hàuⁿ sek
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hãũ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ sek̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: xawH srik

Rime
Character	好	色
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)	蒸 (134)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	呼到切	所力切
Baxter	xawH	srik
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɑuH/	/ʃɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/hɑuH/	/ʃɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/xɑuH/	/ʃiek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hawH/	/ʂik̚/
Li Rong	/xɑuH/	/ʃiək̚/
Wang Li	/xɑuH/	/ʃĭək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/xɑuH/	/ʂi̯ək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hào	she
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hou3	sik1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰˤuʔ-s  s.rək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰuːs  srɯɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	好	色
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hào	sè
Middle Chinese	‹ xawH ›	‹ srik ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰˁuʔ-s/	/*s.rək/
English	love, like (v.)	color; countenance
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	好	色
Reading #	2/2	1/1
No.	4914	10989
Phonetic component	好	色
Rime group	幽	職
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	秏	色
Old Chinese	/*qʰuːs/	/*srɯɡ/

Adjective

好色

1. fond of women; lustful for women; lecherous

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 好色 (“lecherous; fond of women”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		好色
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		好色
Mandarin	Taiwan	好色, 色
	Harbin	花
	Singapore	色
Cantonese	Guangzhou	鹹濕, 生雞
	Hong Kong	鹹濕, 淫
	Taishan	鹹濕
	Dongguan	鹹濕
	Yangjiang	鹹濕
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	鹹濕 outside the family, 扒灰 within the family
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	鹹濕
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	鹹濕
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	鹹濕
	Singapore (Guangfu)	鹹濕
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	鹹濕
	Móng Cái	鹹濕 outside the family, 扒灰 within the family
Hakka	Meixian	花, 好色, 鹹濕
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	鹹濕, 豺
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	痴哥
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	豬哥
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	痴哥
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	痴哥
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	痴哥
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	豬哥
	Senai (Hepo)	鹹濕
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	草鞋
Southern Min	Xiamen	五枝鬚, 臭臊神, 豬哥神, 𪁎哥
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	豬哥
	Quanzhou	五枝鬚, 臭臊神, 豬哥神
	Zhangzhou	五枝鬚, 臭臊神, 豬哥神, 𪁎哥, 𪁎, 貓神, 貓
	Taipei	痴哥
	Kaohsiung	不四鬼
	Yilan	豬哥, 痴哥
	Changhua (Lukang)	好色
	Taichung	風流
	Taichung (Wuqi)	好色
	Tainan	𪁎哥
	Taitung	豬哥
	Hsinchu	豬哥形
	Penghu (Magong)	𪁎哥
	Singapore (Hokkien)	痴哥, 豬哥
	Manila (Hokkien)	五枝鬚, 愛查某
	Shantou	好色, 痴哥
	Singapore (Teochew)	痴哥
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	鹹濕

Derived terms

• 好色之徒 (hàosèzhītú)

 

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hǎosè

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˇ ㄙㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hou² sik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hǎosè
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˇ ㄙㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hǎosè
    • Wade–Giles: hao³-sê⁴
    • Yale: hǎu-sè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haoseh
    • Palladius: хаосэ (xaosɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ sɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hou² sik¹
    • Yale: hóu sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hou² sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: hou² xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯³⁵ sɪk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: xawX srik

Rime
Character	好	色
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)	蒸 (134)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	呼晧切	所力切
Baxter	xawX	srik
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɑuX/	/ʃɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/hɑuX/	/ʃɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/xɑuX/	/ʃiek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hawX/	/ʂik̚/
Li Rong	/xɑuX/	/ʃiək̚/
Wang Li	/xɑuX/	/ʃĭək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/xɑuX/	/ʂi̯ək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hǎo	she
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hou2	sik1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰˤuʔ  s.rək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰuːʔ  srɯɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	好	色
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hǎo	sè
Middle Chinese	‹ xawX ›	‹ srik ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰˁuʔ/	/*s.rək/
English	good	color; countenance
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	好	色
Reading #	1/2	1/1
No.	4913	10989
Phonetic component	好	色
Rime group	幽	職
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	好	色
Old Chinese	/*qʰuːʔ/	/*srɯɡ/
Notes	由女孩子會意美

Noun

好色

1. (literary) charm; loveliness (of a woman)