毫子

Chinese

 
hair; drawing brush; (in the) least; one thousandth
 
child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 pm-1 am; midnight
simp. and trad.
(毫子)

Pronunciation


Noun

毫子

  1. (Southwestern Mandarin, Gan, Hakka, Teochew, Xiang) coin (of small value)
  2. (chiefly Cantonese, Hakka) dime; 10 cents
    毫子 / 毫子 [Cantonese]   ng5 hou4 zi2 jat1 zek3 [Jyutping]   5 cents each
  3. (Xiang) lifting cord of a steelyard

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of (“ten cents; dime”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)
Mandarin Beijing
Taiwan
Jinan
Xi'an
Wuhan
Chengdu
Yangzhou ,
Hefei ,
Cantonese Guangzhou , 毫子
Hong Kong , 毫子
Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou) 毫子
Taishan , 毫子
Yangjiang , 毫子
Kuala Lumpur
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian ,
Miaoli (N. Sixian)
Liudui (S. Sixian)
Hsinchu (Hailu)
Dongshi (Dabu)
Hsinchu (Raoping)
Yunlin (Zhao'an)
Hong Kong
Senai
Jin Taiyuan
Min Bei Jian'ou
Min Dong Fuzhou
Min Nan Xiamen
Quanzhou
Zhangzhou
Chaozhou ,
Johor Bahru
Wu Suzhou
Wenzhou
Xiang Changsha
Shuangfeng
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