生仔

Chinese

		to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw	minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility
simp. and trad. (生仔)		生	仔

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): saang¹ zai²

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): sang¹ doi²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saang¹ zai²
    • Yale: sāang jái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saang¹ dzai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: sang¹ zei²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːŋ⁵⁵ t͡sɐi̯³⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: sang¹ doi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saŋ³³ tᵘɔi⁵⁵/

Verb

生⫽仔 (verb-object)

1. (Cantonese) to give birth (to a son or a child of unspecified sex)

   生仔好辛苦。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   saang¹ zai² hou² san¹ fu². [Jyutping]

   Giving birth is toilsome.

   生完仔要坐月。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   saang¹ jyun⁴ zai² jiu³ co⁵ jyut^6-2. [Jyutping]

   After giving birth, the mother needs to go through postpartum confinement.

   生仔定生女？ [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   saang¹ zai² ding⁶ saang¹ neoi^5-2? [Jyutping]

   Was it a boy or a girl?

Synonyms

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• 分娩 (fēnmiǎn)
• 抾囝 (Hokkien)
• 抾囡仔 (Hokkien)
• 洗囝 (sǎi-gṳ̌ing) (Northern Min)
• 生囝 (Hokkien, Teochew)
• 生囡仔 (Hokkien)
• 生娃 (shēngwá) (colloquial)
• 生娃娃 (Jin)
• 生嬰仔 / 生婴仔 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 生孩子 (shēng háizi)
• 生崽 (sang¹ zai³) (Gan)
• 生產 / 生产 (shēngchǎn)
• 踮房 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 降倈仔 / 降俫仔 (Hakka)

Coordinate terms

• (Cantonese, to a daughter) 生女

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 生仔 – see 鉎仔 (“piece of cast iron; cast iron; pig iron”). (This term is a variant form of 鉎仔).