後母臉

Chinese

		stepmother	face
trad. (後母臉)		後母	臉
simp. (后母脸)		后母	脸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hòumǔliǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄡˋ ㄇㄨˇ ㄌㄧㄢˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hòumǔliǎn [Phonetic: hòumúliǎn]
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄡˋ ㄇㄨˇ ㄌㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hòumǔliǎn
    • Wade–Giles: hou⁴-mu³-lien³
    • Yale: hòu-mǔ-lyǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: howmuulean
    • Palladius: хоумулянь (xoumuljanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xoʊ̯⁵¹ mu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Noun

後母臉

1. stepmother's face
2. (Taiwan, figuratively) unpredictable, unstable, harsh weather (changing like the face of a stepmother)

   春天後母臉／春天后母脸  ―  chūntiān hòumǔliǎn  ―  unpredictable spring weather (literally, “spring's stepmother's face”)

Synonyms

• (Hokkien) 後母面／后母面

References

• “Entry #4923”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.