Talk:番薯
Latest comment: 1 year ago by Justinrleung in topic RFV discussion: August–September 2022
Here is an interesting article about the geographical distribution of the various dialectal forms of this word: [1]. Wyang (talk) 10:54, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
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(rfv-sense) Chinese. "fan". (Note that we currently have 粉絲/粉丝 (fěnsī) 飯/饭 (fàn) fan屎 fans 番薯 (fānshǔ) all from English fan or fans.) 番薯 feels dubious for me, or at least extremely uncommon when compared to others. -- Wpi31 (talk) 11:15, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Wpi31: It's hard to find, but I did find some evidence (although not durably archived):
- — justin(r)leung { (t...) | c=› } 22:29, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
- It's also mentioned in 香港粵語慣用語研究, page 100 [7]. This source alone should be enough for verification since Cantonese is a WT:LDL. — justin(r)leung { (t...) | c=› } 19:03, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
- RFV passed — justin(r)leung { (t...) | c=› } 15:04, 17 September 2022 (UTC)