激死

Chinese

Etymology 1

		to infuriate	to die; impassable; uncrossable to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid
trad. (激死)		激	死
simp. #(激死)		激	死

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gik¹ sei²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gik¹ sei²
    • Yale: gīk séi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gik⁷ sei²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gig¹ séi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɪk̚⁵ sei̯³⁵/

Verb

激死

1. (Cantonese, intransitive) to be extremely annoyed; to be angry; to be mad
2. (Cantonese, transitive) to annoy; to anger; to madden

   真係激死我！ [Cantonese, trad.]
   真系激死我！ [Cantonese, simp.]

   zan¹ hai⁶ gik¹ sei² ngo⁵! [Jyutping]

   Dang, [it, you, …] piss[es] me off!

   激死人呀！ [Cantonese]  ―  gik¹ sei² jan⁴ aa³! [Jyutping]  ―  So infuriating!

Synonyms

• 氣死／气死 (qìsǐ)

Etymology 2

		to submerge in water	to die; impassable; uncrossable to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid
trad. (激死)		激	死
simp. #(激死)		激	死

Pronunciation

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): kek--sí / kiak--sí

  (Teochew, Peng'im): gêg⁴ si²

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kek--sí
    • Tâi-lô: kik--sí
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiak--sí
    • Tâi-lô: kiak--sí
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: gêg⁴ si²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kek sí
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kek̚²⁻⁴ si⁵²⁻²¹/

Verb

激死

1. (Hokkien) to die from suffocation
   1. (Southern Min) to drown

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 淹死 (“to drown (intransitive)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		溺死
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		淹死, 溺死, 溺斃, 滅頂, 沒頂
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	淹死
	Singapore	淹死
Southwestern Mandarin	Guiyang	淹死
Cantonese	Guangzhou	浸死
	Hong Kong	浸死
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	浸死
	Macau	浸死
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	浸死
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	浸死
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	浸死
	Foshan	浸死
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	浸死
	Foshan (Shunde)	浸死
	Foshan (Sanshui)	浸死
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	浸死
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	浸死
	Zhuhai (Qianshan)	浸死
	Zhuhai (Doumen, Shangheng Tanka)	浸死
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	浸死
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	浸死
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	浸死
	Taishan	浸死
	Kaiping (Chikan)	浸死
	Enping (Niujiang)	浸死
	Heshan (Yayao)	浸死
	Dongguan	浸死
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	浸死
Gan	Lichuan	浸死
Hakka	Meixian	浸死
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	浸死
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	浸死
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	浸死
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	浸死
	Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua)	浸死
	Yudu	浸死
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	浸死
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	浸死
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	浸死
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	浸死
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	浸死
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	蔭死
Southern Min	Xiamen	激死
	Quanzhou	激死
	Zhangzhou	激死
	Manila (Hokkien)	淹死
	Jieyang	激死
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	浸死

References

• Lim Hiong Seng (1886) “A Dictionary of some of the more important words in the Swatow dialect”, in Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press