鹹篤篤

Chinese

		salty	serious (illness); sincere; true	serious (illness); sincere; true
trad. (鹹篤篤)		鹹	篤	篤
simp. (咸笃笃)		咸	笃	笃
alternative forms		鹹督督／咸督督

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kiâm-tok-tok

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiâm-tok-tok
    • Tâi-lô: kiâm-tok-tok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kiamdokdog
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kiam²⁴⁻²² tɔk̚³²⁻⁴ tɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kiam²⁴⁻²² tɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ tɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiam¹³⁻²² tɔk̚³²⁻⁵ tɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kiam²⁴⁻¹¹ tɔk̚³²⁻⁴ tɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiam²³⁻³³ tɔk̚³²⁻⁴ tɔk̚³²/

Adjective

鹹篤篤

1. (Hokkien, ideophonic) very salty
2. (Hokkien, ideophonic, figuratively) very stingy

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 鹹乎乎 (“(expressive) salty”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		鹹乎乎
Cantonese	Guangzhou	鹹赧赧, 鹹嘜嘜
	Dongguan	鹹赧赧, 鹹硬硬
Hakka	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	鹹嗒嗒, 鹹憋憋
Southern Min	Xiamen	鹹篤篤, 鹹死死, 鹹苦苦, 鹹澀澀
	Quanzhou	鹹篤篤
	Yongchun	鹹篤篤
	Zhangzhou	鹹篤篤, 鹹死死
	Tainan	鹹篤篤

References

• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “鹹篤篤”, in 臺日大辭典‎^[1], volume 1 (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC, page 255
• “鹹篤篤”, in Taiwanese-English Dictionary‎^[2], Taichung: Maryknoll Language Service Center, 1976, archived from the original on 2020-08-11, page 541.
• “Entry #13077”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.