老婆仔

Chinese

		wife; maidservant	diminutive suffix
simp. and trad. (老婆仔)		老婆	仔

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): lou⁵ po⁴ zai²
Min Nan (POJ): lāu-pô-á

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: lou⁵ po⁴ zai²
  - Yale: lóuh pòh jái
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lou⁵ po⁴ dzai²
  - Guangdong Romanization: lou⁵ po⁴ zei²
  - IPA ^(key): /lou̯¹³ pʰɔː²¹ t͡sɐi̯³⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lāu-pô-á
  - Tâi-lô: lāu-pô-á
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lauxpoi'ar
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /laʊ³³⁻²¹ pɤ²³⁻³³ a⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /laʊ³³⁻¹¹ po²⁴⁻³³ a⁵³/

Noun

老婆仔

(Cantonese, affectionate) (young) wife or steady girlfriend (Classifier: 個／个 c)
(Taiwanese Hokkien) maidservant; amah

Synonyms

(maidservant): 老媽子／老妈子 (lǎomāzi)

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