褲袋仔

Chinese

		drawers; trousers; pants	pocket
trad. (褲袋仔)		褲	袋仔
simp. (裤袋仔)		裤	袋仔
alternative forms		褲袋兒／裤袋儿 Hakka

Pronunciation

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): fu-thoi-é

  (Hailu, HRS): fu^ˇ toi^˖ er

  (Meixian, Guangdong): fu⁴ toi⁴ ê³

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khò͘-tē-á

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• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fu-thoi-é
    • Hakka Romanization System: fu toi e^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fu⁴ toi⁴ e³
    • Sinological IPA: /fu⁵⁵ tʰoi̯⁵⁵ e³¹/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: fu^ˇ toi^˖ er
    • Sinological IPA: /fu¹¹ tʰoi³³ ə⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: fu⁴ toi⁴ ê³
    • Sinological IPA: /fu⁵³⁻⁵⁵ tʰoɪ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ e³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Tainan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khò͘-tē-á
    • Tâi-lô: khòo-tē-á
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qorde'ar
    • Sinological IPA (Tainan): /kʰɔ²¹⁻⁵³ te³³⁻¹¹ a⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kʰɔ²¹⁻⁵³ te²²⁻²¹ a⁵³/

Noun

褲袋仔

1. (Hakka, Hokkien) pants pocket
   • 1996, “無毛雞”, in 方子文 (lyrics), 施福珍 (music), 台灣囝仔歌的故事, Taipei: 玉山社出版, →ISBN, page 123:

     無毛雞　假大扮　褲袋仔掀開無半項 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     无毛鸡　假大扮　裤袋仔掀开无半项 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     Bô mô͘ ke, ké tōa-pān, khò͘-tē-á hian-khui bô pòaⁿ hāng [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     The featherless chicken tries to show off; when he turns out his pants pocket, there's not half a thing

   • 2014, “銀角仔 [Penny]”, in 謝誌豪 [Arthur Hsieh] (lyrics), 蕭煌奇 [Ricky Hsiao] (music), 上水的花 [The Most Beautiful Flower], performed by 蕭煌奇 [Ricky Hsiao]:

     褲袋仔只偆零散　欲怎樣敢繼續做夢 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     裤袋仔只偆零散　欲怎样敢继续做梦 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     khò͘-tē-á chí chhun lân-san, beh chóaⁿ-iūⁿ káⁿ kè-sio̍k chòe-bāng [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 褲兜 (“trouser pocket; pants pocket”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		褲兜
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	褲兜兒, 褲兜子
	Taiwan	褲袋
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	褲布袋
	Xi'an	褲兜兒
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	褲兜
Southwestern Mandarin	Liuzhou	褲袋
Cantonese	Guangzhou	褲袋
	Hong Kong	褲袋
Hakka	Meixian	褲袋仔
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	褲袋仔
	Miaoli (Gongguan; N. Sixian)	褲袋仔
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; N. Sixian)	褲袋
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	褲袋仔
	Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian)	褲袋仔
	Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian)	褲袋仔
	Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian)	褲袋仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	褲袋仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	褲袋
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping)	褲袋
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	褲袋
Huizhou	Jixi	褲夾袋
Southern Min	Xiamen	褲袋仔
	Yongchun	褲轆
	Zhangzhou	褲袋仔
	Kaohsiung	褲袋仔
	Kaohsiung (Cieding)	褲袋仔
	Yilan (Toucheng)	褲袋仔
	Tainan	褲袋仔
	Tainan (Anping)	褲袋仔
	Pingtung (Baoli, Checheng)	小橐, 褲袋仔
	Jieyang	褲袋
	Leizhou	褲袋
	Haikou	褲袋, 褲囊
Wu	Ningbo	褲袋
	Wenzhou	褲兜

Hypernyms

• 口袋 (kǒudai)

Derived terms

• 褲袋仔袋磅子 / 裤袋仔袋磅子

References

• “褲袋仔”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2026.
• “褲袋仔”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Mandarin and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.