小舌

Chinese

		small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young	tongue
trad. (小舌)		小	舌
simp. #(小舌)		小	舌

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiǎoshé

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄕㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu² sit³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sió-chi̍h

  (Teochew, Peng'im): siao² zih⁸

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎoshé
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄕㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎoshé
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao³-shê²
    • Yale: syǎu-shé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheausher
    • Palladius: сяошэ (sjaošɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂɤ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (小舌兒／小舌儿)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎoshér
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄕㄜˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎoshér
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao³-shê²-ʼrh
    • Yale: syǎu-shér
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheausher'l
    • Palladius: сяошэр (sjaošɛr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂɤɻ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: siu² sit³
    • Yale: síu sit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu² sit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu² xid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯³⁵ siːt̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sió-chi̍h
    • Tâi-lô: sió-tsi̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sioycih
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siʔ¹²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sio⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡siʔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siʔ⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: siao² zih⁸
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siáu tsi̍h
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siau⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡siʔ⁴/

Noun

小舌

1. uvula (appendage that hangs from the palate)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 小舌 (“uvula”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		懸壅垂
Mandarin	Beijing	小舌兒, 小舌頭兒
	Taiwan	小舌
	Yantai (Muping)	小舌頭兒
	Jinan	小舌頭
	Luoyang	小舌頭兒
	Lanzhou	咽牙子
	Xining	咽舌子
	Ürümqi	咽舌子
	Chengdu	小舌頭兒, 小舌頭
	Guiyang	小舌頭
	Guilin	小舌
	Liuzhou	小舌頭
	Yangzhou	小舌頭
	Nanjing	小舌頭
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	咽舌子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	吊鐘, 喉嚨椗
	Hong Kong	吊鐘, 喉嚨椗
	Taishan	吊鵝
	Dongguan	吊鐘
	Nanning	喉嚨椗
	Wuzhou	吊鐘
	Yulin	細舌頭
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	喉嚨椗
Gan	Pingxiang	小舌頭, 小舌, 小舌子
Hakka	Meixian	頂中仔, 吊鐘
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	頂中仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	頂中仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	頂中仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	頂中
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	頂中仔
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	喉嗹蒂
Huizhou	Jixi	喉嚨花
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	舌囝, 喙舌囝
Southern Min	Xiamen	嚨喉鐘, 嚨喉鐘仔, 嚨喉奶仔, 喉鐘
	Zhangzhou	嚨喉蒂仔, 嚨喉鐘仔, 嚨喉鐘, 喉蒂仔
	Zhao'an	嚨喉鐘仔
	Dongshan	脘鐘仔
	Taipei (Wanhua)	嚨喉蒂仔
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	嚨喉奶仔
	Kaohsiung	嚨喉蒂仔
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	嚨喉奶奶仔
	Yilan	嚨喉蒂仔
	Yilan (Toucheng)	嚨喉蒂仔
	Changhua (Lukang)	嚨喉奶仔
	Taichung	嚨喉蒂仔
	Taichung (Wuqi)	嚨喉奶仔
	Tainan	嚨喉鐘
	Taitung	嚨喉奶仔
	Hsinchu	嚨喉奶仔
	Penghu (Magong)	嚨喉鐘
	Shantou	小舌
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	細脷
Northern Pinghua	Guilin (Dahe)	小舌子
Wu	Shanghai	小舌頭
	Suzhou	小舌頭
	Danyang	喉嚨花, 喉嚨鐘, 小舌頭
	Ningbo	小舌頭