出珠

Chinese

		to go out; to come out; to occur to go out; to come out; to occur; to produce; to go beyond; to rise; to put forth; to happen; (a measure word for dramas, plays, or operas)	pearl; bead
simp. and trad. (出珠)		出	珠

Pronunciation

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhut-chu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cug⁴ zu¹

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhut-chu
    • Tâi-lô: tshut-tsu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhutzw
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰut̚³²⁻⁵ t͡su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰut̚³²⁻⁴ t͡su⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cug⁴ zu¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshuk tsu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰuk̚²⁻⁴ t͡su³³/

Verb

出珠

1. (Southern Min) to have smallpox

   • 爾箇子出痘未 [Teochew, trad.]
     尔个子出痘未 [Teochew, simp.]

     From: 1841, William Dean, First Lessons in the Tie-chiw Dialect, “Diseases”

     le² gai⁷ gian² cug⁴ zu¹ bhuê⁷ [Peng'im]

     has your child had the small pox

Synonyms

• 出天花 (chū tiānhuā)
• (Hokkien) 出汞, 出梅

References

• Fielde, Adele Marion (1883) “痘 (cu)”, in A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect, Arranged According to Syllables and Tones, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 68