安全套

Chinese

		safe; secure; unattractive safe; secure; unattractive; ugly	to cover; covering; case to cover; covering; case; cover; (a measure word, a set of something); sheath
trad. (安全套)		安全	套
simp. #(安全套)		安全	套

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ānquántào

  (Zhuyin): ㄢ ㄑㄩㄢˊ ㄊㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): on¹ cyun⁴ tou³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ānquántào
    • Zhuyin: ㄢ ㄑㄩㄢˊ ㄊㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ancyuántào
    • Wade–Giles: an¹-chʻüan²-tʻao⁴
    • Yale: ān-chywán-tàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: anchyuantaw
    • Palladius: аньцюаньтао (anʹcjuanʹtao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀän⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵ tʰɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: on¹ cyun⁴ tou³
    • Yale: ōn chyùhn tou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: on¹ tsyn⁴ tou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: on¹ qun⁴ tou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔːn⁵⁵ t͡sʰyːn²¹ tʰou̯³³/

Noun

安全套

1. condom (Classifier: 個／个 m c)

   我把安全套刺破了。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Wǒ bǎ ānquántào cìpò le. [Pinyin]

   My condom broke.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 避孕套 (“condom”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		避孕套, 安全套, 保險套, 陰莖套
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	避孕套兒, 套兒
	Taiwan	保險套, 衛生套, 套, 套套, 小雨傘 euphemistic, 小雨衣 euphemistic, 小夜衣 euphemistic
	Harbin	保險套兒
Mandarin	Malaysia	如意套
	Singapore	如意套, 安全套
Cantonese	Hong Kong	避孕套, 安全套, 套, condom, dom, dom dom, 小雨衣 euphemistic, 小夜衣 euphemistic, 如意袋 euphemistic
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	保險套, 保險落
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	保險落
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	保險套
Southern Min	Taipei	sak-khuh GT, 保險套 GT
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	避孕袋, 避孕套
Wu	Shanghai	套子
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Descendants

• → Zhuang: dauqancienz (calque)