怨嘆

Chinese

		blame; complain	to sigh
trad. (怨嘆/怨歎)		怨	嘆/歎
simp. (怨叹)		怨	叹

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): oàn-thàn

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oàn-thàn
    • Tâi-lô: uàn-thàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oarntaxn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /uan²¹⁻⁵³ tʰan²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /uan⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tʰan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /uan²¹⁻⁵³ tʰan²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /uan¹¹⁻⁵³ tʰan¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /uan²¹⁻⁴¹ tʰan²¹/

Verb

怨嘆

1. (Southern Min) to grumble and sigh; to complain and sigh

Synonyms

(deprecated template usage)

• 叨嘮／叨唠 (dāolao) (colloquial)
• 吐槽 (neologism, slang)
• 嗔怨 (chēnyuàn)
• 埋怨 (mányuàn)
• 怨懟／怨怼 (oàn-tūi) (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 抱怨 (bàoyuàn)
• 牢騷／牢骚 (láosāo)
• 發牢騷／发牢骚 (fā láosāo)

 

Further reading

• “Entry #4979”, 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.