拙荊

Chinese

		awkward; clumsy; dull awkward; clumsy; dull; inelegant; (polite) my	thorns; brambles
trad. (拙荊)		拙	荊
simp. (拙荆)		拙	荆

Etymology

From the story of Meng Guang ((deprecated template usage) 孟光), the virtuous and hardworking wife of poet Liang Hong ((deprecated template usage) 梁鴻) in the Eastern Han dynasty, who had simple dressing with a twig hairpin and coarse cloth skirt.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuójīng

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄛˊ ㄐㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyut³ ging¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): choat-keng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhuójīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄛˊ ㄐㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuójing
    • Wade–Giles: cho²-ching¹
    • Yale: jwó-jīng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwojing
    • Palladius: чжоцзин (čžoczin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯ɔ³⁵ t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyut³ ging¹
    • Yale: jyut gīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzyt⁸ ging¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jud³ ging¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syːt̚³ kɪŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: choat-keng
    • Tâi-lô: tsuat-king
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zoatkefng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡suat̚³²⁻⁴ kiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡suat̚⁵⁻²⁴ kiɪŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡suat̚³²⁻⁵ kiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡suat̚³²⁻⁴ kiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡suat̚³²⁻⁴ kiɪŋ⁴⁴/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 拙荊

1. (literary, humble) my wife

Synonyms

• 內人／内人 (nèirén)
• 內子／内子 (nèizǐ)
• 山荊／山荆 (shānjīng)
• 山妻 (shānqī)

(deprecated template usage)