蟳膏

Chinese

		(hairy sea-crab)	ointment; paste
trad. (蟳膏)		蟳	膏
simp. (𫊻膏)		𫊻	膏

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chîm-ko

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chîm-ko
    • Tâi-lô: tsîm-ko
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cimkoy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sim²⁴⁻²² ko⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sim²³⁻³³ kɤ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Singapore): /t͡sim²⁴⁻²¹ ko⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sim²⁴⁻²² ko³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sim²⁴⁻¹¹ ko⁴⁴/

Noun

蟳膏

1. (Hokkien) the ovaries, roe and digestive tract of a female crab (as a food delicacy)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 蟹黃 (“ovaries, roe and digestive tract of a female crab”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		蟹黃
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	蟹黃
	Harbin	蟹子黃兒
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	蟹黃
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	蟹黃
	Xi'an	蟹黃
	Xuzhou	蟹黃
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	蟹黃
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	蟹黃
	Wuhan	蟹黃
	Liuzhou	蟹黃
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	蟹黃
	Yangzhou	蟹黃
Cantonese	Guangzhou	蟹膏
	Hong Kong	蟹膏, 蟹黃
	Dongguan	蟹膏
	Singapore (Guangfu)	蟹膏
Gan	Lichuan	蟹黃
Hakka	Meixian	蟹黃, 蟹膏
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	蟹膏
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	毛蟹膏
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	毛蟹膏
Jin	Taiyuan	蟹黃
Southern Min	Xiamen	蟳膏, 蟳仁
	Quanzhou	蟳膏
	Zhangzhou	蟳仔膏
	Tainan	蟳膏, 蟳仁
	Kinmen (Jinsha)	蠘仁
	Singapore (Hokkien)	蟳膏
	Jieyang	蟹膏
	Singapore (Teochew)	蟹膏
	Leizhou	蟹膏
	Haikou	蟹膏, 膏
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Sanxiang)	螃蟹膏
Wu	Shanghai	蟹黃
	Shanghai (Songjiang)	蟹黃
	Shanghai (Jiading)	蟹況
	Shanghai (Chongming)	蟹黃
	Suzhou	蟹黃
	Danyang	蟹黃
	Hangzhou	蟹黃兒
	Ningbo	蟹黃
	Jinhua	蟹黃
Xiang	Changsha	蟹黃