酸味

Chinese

		sour; sore; ache sour; sore; ache; acid	taste
trad. (酸味)		酸	味
simp. #(酸味)		酸	味

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): suānwèi

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄢ ㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syun¹ mei⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sng-bī

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: suānwèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄢ ㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: suanwèi
    • Wade–Giles: suan¹-wei⁴
    • Yale: swān-wèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suanwey
    • Palladius: суаньвэй (suanʹvɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯än⁵⁵ weɪ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: suānwèir
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄢ ㄨㄟˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: suanwèir
    • Wade–Giles: suan¹-wei⁴-ʼrh
    • Yale: swān-wèir
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suanwell
    • Palladius: суаньвэйр (suanʹvɛjr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯än⁵⁵ wəɻ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: syun¹ mei⁶
    • Yale: syūn meih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: syn¹ mei⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xun¹ méi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syːn⁵⁵ mei̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sng-bī
    • Tâi-lô: sng-bī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sngbi
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /sŋ̍⁴⁴⁻²² bi²²/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /sŋ̍³³ bi⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /sŋ̍⁴⁴⁻²² bi²²/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /sŋ̍⁴⁴⁻³³ bi³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /sŋ̍⁴⁴⁻³³ bi³³/

Noun

酸味

1. sour odour or taste
2. (figurative) jealousy; enviousness
3. (figurative) acerbity; bitterness

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 醋勁 (“feeling of jealousy”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		醋勁, 醋意, 醋心, 酸味
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	醋勁兒
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	醋勁
Cantonese	Guangzhou	醋味
	Hong Kong	醋意
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	醋心
Southern Min	Xiamen	醋神
	Zhangzhou	醋神
	Tainan	醋神

Japanese

Kanji in this term
酸	味
さん Grade: 5	み Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) さんみ [sàńmí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [sã̠mʲːi]

Noun

酸(さん)味(み) • (sanmi) 

1. sourness

References

• “酸味”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026