牙籤子

Chinese

		toothpick	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
trad. (牙籤子/牙簽子)		牙籤/牙簽	子
simp. (牙签子)		牙签	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): ячянзы (i͡ači͡anzɨ, I-II-I)

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• Mandarin
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: ячянзы (i͡ači͡anzɨ, I-II-I)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ia²⁴ t͡ɕʰiæ̃⁵¹ t͡sz̩²⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

Noun

牙籤子

1. (Dungan) toothpick (stick for removing food residue from the area between the teeth)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 牙籤 (“toothpick”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		牙籤
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	牙籤兒
	Taiwan	牙籤
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	牙籤兒
	Xi'an	牙籤
	Xining	牙籤子
	Xuzhou	剔牙棒 humorous
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	牙籤子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	扭骨 dated
	Hong Kong	牙籤
	Taishan	牙籤, 牙針
Gan	Lichuan	牙剔, 牙籤
Hakka	Meixian	牙籤
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	牙槧仔, 牙刺仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	牙槧仔, 牙刺仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	牙刺
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	牙籤
Huizhou	Jixi	牙籤
Southern Min	Xiamen	齒戳, 齒黜
	Quanzhou	齒剔
	Zhangzhou	齒黜
	Taipei	齒戳, 齒戳仔
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	齒戳
	Kaohsiung	齒戳
	Yilan	齒戳
	Changhua (Lukang)	齒戳仔
	Taichung	齒戳仔
	Tainan	齒戳
	Hsinchu	齒戳仔
	Penghu (Magong)	齒戳
	Penang (Hokkien)	喙齒攕
	Manila (Hokkien)	齒剔