米粩

Chinese

		rice; metre
trad. (米粩)		米	粩
simp. #(米粩)		米	粩
alternative forms		米佬

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bí-láu

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bí-láu
    • Tâi-lô: bí-láu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bylao
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lau⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lau⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lau⁴¹/

Noun

米粩

1. (Hokkien) sugarcoated hollow puffed rice confection

See also

• 荖花 / 蓼花 (liǎohuā)
• 麻粩 / 麻米粩仔

Further reading

• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “bí-láu”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 296; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 296