肉圓

Chinese

		meat; flesh	circle; round; circular circle; round; circular; spherical; (of the moon) full; unit of Chinese currency (Yuan); tactful; to justify
trad. (肉圓)		肉	圓
simp. (肉圆)		肉	圆
anagram		圓肉／圆肉
Literally: “meat circle”.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ròuyuán

(Zhuyin): ㄖㄡˋ ㄩㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): juk⁶ jyun⁴
Min Nan (POJ): bah-oân

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: ròuyuán
  - Zhuyin: ㄖㄡˋ ㄩㄢˊ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rowyuan
  - IPA ^(key): /ʐoʊ̯⁵¹ y̯ɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: juk⁶ jyun⁴
  - Yale: yuhk yùhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁹ jyn⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: yug⁶ yun⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚² jyːn²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bah-oân
  - Tâi-lô: bah-uân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bah'oaan
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ uan²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ba(ʔ)⁵ uan²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ uan¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ uan²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ uan²³/

Noun

肉圓

meatball
(Min Nan) ba-wan, a Taiwanese snack food[1]

Descendants

→ English: ba-wan

See also

肉丸 (ròuwán)
肉丸仔

References

“Entry #2769”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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