土鱉
Appearance
Chinese
[edit]earth; dust; rural earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian |
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trad. (土鱉/土鼈) | 土 | 鱉/鼈 | |
simp. (土鳖) | 土 | 鳖 |
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˇ ㄅㄧㄝ
- Tongyong Pinyin: tǔbie
- Wade–Giles: tʻu3-pieh1
- Yale: tǔ-byē
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuubie
- Palladius: тубе (tube)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ pi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: tou2 bit3
- Yale: tóu bit
- Cantonese Pinyin: tou2 bit8
- Guangdong Romanization: tou2 bid3
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰou̯³⁵ piːt̚³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
Noun
[edit]土鱉
- sand cockroach (Eupolyphaga sinensis)
- (dialectal, figurative) old-fashioned person; one who has seen nothing of life
- (neologism) one who has never studied/lived overseas