拙荊

Chinese

		awkward; clumsy; dull awkward; clumsy; dull; inelegant; (polite) my	thorns; brambles
trad. (拙荊)		拙	荊
simp. (拙荆)		拙	荆

Etymology

From the story of Meng Guang (孟光), the virtuous and hardworking wife of poet Liang Hong (梁鴻) in the Eastern Han dynasty, who had simple dressing with a twig hairpin and coarse cloth skirt.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhuójīng

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄛˊ ㄐㄧㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zyut³ ging¹
Min Nan (POJ): choat-keng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: zhuójīng
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄛˊ ㄐㄧㄥ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwojing
  - IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯ɔ³⁵ t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zyut³ ging¹
  - Yale: jyut gīng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzyt⁸ ging¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: jud³ ging¹
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃyːt̚³ kɪŋ⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: choat-keng
  - Tâi-lô: tsuat-king
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zoatkefng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡suat̚³²⁻⁴ kiɪŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡suat̚⁵⁻²⁴ kiɪŋ³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡suat̚³²⁻⁵ kiɪŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡suat̚³²⁻⁴ kiɪŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡suat̚³²⁻⁴ kiɪŋ⁴⁴/

Noun

拙荊

(literary, humble) my wife

Synonyms

內人／内人 (nèirén)
內子／内子 (nèizǐ)
山荊／山荆 (shānjīng)
山妻 (shānqī)

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