散仔

Chinese

		adjourn; scatter; leisurely adjourn; scatter; leisurely; loosen; powdered medicine; to scatter; to come loose	minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility
trad. (散仔)		散	仔
simp. #(散仔)		散	仔

Pronunciation

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): saan² zai²

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): lhan² doi²

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sàn-á

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saan² zai²
    • Yale: sáan jái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saan² dzai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: san² zei²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːn³⁵ t͡sɐi̯³⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: lhan² doi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬan⁵⁵ tᵘɔi⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sàn-á
    • Tâi-lô: sàn-á
    • Phofsit Daibuun: safn'ar
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /san²¹⁻⁵³ a⁵³/

Noun

散仔

1. (Cantonese) temporary worker; low-level member (of a gang or an organization)
2. (Siyi Yue) (young) bachelor
3. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) pauper; poor wretch; penniless good-for-nothing

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 單身漢 (“bachelor”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		單身漢
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	光棍兒, 光棍兒光, 鰥棍兒
	Taiwan	單身漢
	Harbin	光棍兒, 跑腿子, 光桿子
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	光棍兒, 光棍子
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	光棍兒, 光棍子, 光漢
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	光棍兒, 光棍兒漢兒
	Wanrong	光棍兒
	Xi'an	光棍兒, 光身漢
	Xining	光棍
	Xuzhou	光棍漢, 光棍兒漢, 單身漢
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	光棍
	Ürümqi	光棍兒
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	單身漢兒, 光棍, 光棍兒, 光身漢
	Wuhan	單身漢, 寡漢條, 光棍
	Guiyang	單身漢
	Liuzhou	寡佬, 寡公, 光棍, 單身寡佬
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	單身漢, 光棍
	Yangzhou	光棍條子
	Hefei	光棍, 光桿子, 寡漢, 寡漢條子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	寡佬, 單身寡佬, 寡仔, 單身寡仔
	Hong Kong	寡佬, 單身寡佬, 王老五
	Taishan	寡佬, 散仔
	Kaiping (Chikan)	寡佬, 散仔
	Dongguan	單身寡佬, 光棍佬
	Yangjiang	寡佬
Gan	Nanchang	單身
	Pingxiang	單身人
Hakka	Meixian	單鳥哥, 單隻阿哥
	Yudu	光棍
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	單身哥仔, 單身哥
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	單身哥仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	單身哥仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	單身哥
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	單身哥仔
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	羅漢腳
Jin	Taiyuan	光棍, 光棍漢, 光棍兒漢
	Xinzhou	光棍
Northern Min	Jian'ou	單身漢, 光棍
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	單身哥
Southern Min	Xiamen	單身漢, 十一叔, 十一哥
	Quanzhou	十一叔
	Zhangzhou	十一叔
	Taipei	十一哥, 羅漢跤仔
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	孤𣮈的, 羅漢跤
	Kaohsiung	十一哥, 羅漢跤仔, 獨身仔
	Yilan	羅漢跤仔, 獨身仔
	Changhua (Lukang)	十一哥, 羅漢跤仔
	Taichung	十一哥, 羅漢跤仔
	Tainan	十一哥, 羅漢跤仔, 獨身仔
	Hsinchu	羅漢跤
	Kinmen	十一哥, 十一叔, 孤身
	Penghu (Magong)	十一哥, 羅漢跤
	Chaozhou	單身囝
	Shantou	單身漢
	Jieyang	單身囝
	Leizhou	單身漢
	Haikou	光棍
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	單身漢, 光棍 derogatory, 光棍兒 derogatory
Wu	Shanghai	單身漢, 光棍, 獨腳伙
	Suzhou	單身漢
	Danyang	單身漢, 光棍條子, 光棍
	Hangzhou	光棍頭
	Ningbo	光棍, 光棍老倌
	Wenzhou	單獨自人, 獨自人
	Jinhua	光棍, 禿鐵兒, 光棍禿鐵兒 derogatory
	Jinhua (Tangxi)	光棍邋遢兒 derogatory
Xiang	Changsha	單身漢, 單身漢子, 光褲帶
	Loudi	光棍
	Shuangfeng	單身家, 單身公

Dialectal synonyms of 窮人 (“poor person”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		窮人, 貧民
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	窮人, 窮鬼, 窮光蛋
	Harbin	窮光蛋
	Singapore	窮人
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	窮人, 窮光蛋, 窮棒棒子
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	窮人, 窮光蛋, 溜光蛋, 溜光蛋兒
	Wanrong	窮骨頭
	Xi'an	窮人, 窮漢, 窮光蛋
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	窮骨頭
	Liuzhou	窮鬼
Cantonese	Guangzhou	窮人, 窮鬼
	Hong Kong	窮人, 窮鬼
Gan	Nanchang	窮人
	Lichuan	窮搭仔
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	窮苦人
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	窮苦人
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	窮苦人
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	窮苦人
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	窮苦人
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	散人
Jin	Taiyuan	窮人
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	窮儂
Southern Min	Xiamen	艱苦儂, 宋凶儂, 赤囝
	Quanzhou	艱苦儂, 赤囝
	Zhangzhou	艱苦儂, 散仔, 阿散仔, 赤囝
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	散凶儂
	Kaohsiung	散凶儂, 散食儂
	Yilan	散凶儂, 散赤儂
	Taichung	散赤儂
	Tainan	散凶儂, 散赤儂, 散鬼
	Hsinchu	散赤儂
	Kinmen	散赤儂
	Penghu (Magong)	散赤儂, 艱苦儂, 歹命儂
	Jieyang	磽囝, 磽囝儂
	Leizhou	窮儂, 窮鬼
	Haikou	窮儂
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	窮佬, 窮人, 窮鬼
Wu	Danyang	窮人, 窮光蛋, 窮塌皮
	Hangzhou	窮哥哥兒, 窮鬼
Xiang	Changsha	窮人子

Derived terms

• 散仔館／散仔馆