辣海

Chinese

		hot (spicy); pungent	ocean; sea
simp. and trad. (辣海)		辣	海
alternative forms		啦嗨 辣嗨 拉嗨 nonstandard 拉海 nonstandard

Pronunciation

• Wu (Wiktionary): laq he (T5)

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• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: laq he (T5)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /la̱ʔ¹¹ he̞²³/

Verb

辣海 (Shanghai)

1. to be (somewhere), to be in, to exist
2. to be in the middle of doing something (to be doing) (indicating an action in progress)

   儂辣海等啥人啊？ [Shanghainese, trad.]
   侬辣海等啥人啊？ [Shanghainese, simp.]

   Who are you waiting for?

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 在 (“at, in”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		於
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		在
Mandarin	Beijing	在, 挨, 跟
	Taiwan	在
	Jinan	在, 從
	Xi'an	在
	Wuhan	在
	Chengdu	在
	Yangzhou	在
	Hefei	在
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	在
Cantonese	Guangzhou	喺, 響
	Hong Kong	喺, 響
	Foshan	喺, 響
	Shunde	喺
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	在
	Doumen (Shangheng Tanka)	響, 揀
	Doumen	揀
	Taishan	到, 響
	Kaiping (Chikan)	到
	Dongguan	響, 在, 喺
	Yangjiang	在
Gan	Nanchang	在
Hakka	Meixian	喺
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	在
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	在
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	在
	Dongshi (Dabu)	在
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	在
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	在
Jin	Taiyuan	在
Min Bei	Jian'ou	到
Min Dong	Fuzhou	著, 在, 洽
	Fuqing	著, 洽
Min Nan	Xiamen	佇, 踮
	Quanzhou	佇
	Zhangzhou	佇
	Taipei	佇, 踮 mT
	Kaohsiung	佇
	Tainan	佇
	Taichung	佇
	Hsinchu	佇
	Lukang	佇
	Sanxia	佇
	Yilan	佇
	Kinmen	佇
	Magong	佇
	Penang	佇
	Philippines (Manila)	佇
	Chaozhou	在
	Shantou	在
Wu	Shanghai	辣, 辣辣, 辣海
	Suzhou	勒
	Wenzhou	是
Xiang	Changsha	在
	Shuangfeng	在
Note	mT - mainstream Taiwanese (no particular region identified)