戥子

Chinese

		small steelyard for weighing money	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
trad. (戥子)		戥	子
simp. #(戥子)		戥	子
alternative forms		等子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): děngzi

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄥˇ ˙ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dang² zi²
• Gan (Wiktionary): den³ zi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: děngzi
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄥˇ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: děngzi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: têng³-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: děng-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: deeng.tzy
    • Palladius: дэнцзы (dɛnczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɤŋ²¹⁴ d͡z̥z̩⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dang² zi²
    • Yale: dáng jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dang² dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: deng² ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɐŋ³⁵ t͡siː³⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: den³ zi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɛn²¹³⁻²¹ t͡sz̩¹/

Noun

戥子

1. small steelyard for weighing money and similar items

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 戥子 (“small steelyard for weighing money and similar items”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		戥子
Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	戥子
	Jinan	戥子
	Luoyang	戥子
	Wanrong	戥子
	Xi'an	戥子
	Yinchuan	戥子
	Xining	戥子
	Ürümqi	戥子
	Wuhan	戥子
	Chengdu	戥子, 等子
	Guiyang	戥子
	Liuzhou	釐戥, 戥子
	Xuzhou	戥子, 等子
	Yangzhou	戥子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	釐戥
	Hong Kong	釐戥
	Dongguan	釐戥
Gan	Nanchang	戥子
	Lichuan	釐戥
	Pingxiang	戥子
Hakka	Meixian	釐秤
	Yudu	釐戥, 戥子
Huizhou	Jixi	戥秤
Jin	Taiyuan	戥子
	Xinzhou	戥子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	釐戥
Southern Min	Xiamen	戥仔, 釐戥
	Quanzhou	戥仔, 釐戥
	Jinjiang	釐戥
	Zhangzhou	戥仔, 釐戥
	Taipei	戥仔
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	戥仔
	Kaohsiung	戥仔
	Yilan	戥仔
	Changhua (Lukang)	戥仔
	Taichung	戥仔
	Tainan	戥仔
	Hsinchu	釐戥
	Kinmen	戥
	Penghu (Magong)	戥
	Shantou	釐秤
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	釐戥
Wu	Shanghai	戥子
	Suzhou	戥子, 克戥
	Danyang	戥子
	Hangzhou	戥子
	Ningbo	戥子
	Wenzhou	錢秤
	Jinhua	錢秤, 戥秤
Xiang	Changsha	戥子
	Loudi	戥子