草莓

Chinese

 
grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty
berry
trad. (草莓)
simp. #(草莓)

Etymology

Appears in early 20th century. Probably a calque of English strawberry.

Pronunciation


Noun

草莓

  1. strawberry (Classifier: m)
  2. (slang) hickey
    脖子草莓 [MSC, trad.]
    脖子草莓 [MSC, simp.]
    Tā zài wǒ bózi shàng zhòng cǎoméi. [Pinyin]
    He gave me a hickey on my neck. (lit. He planted a strawberry on my neck.)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 草莓 (“strawberry”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 草莓
Taxonomic name 草莓
Mandarin Beijing 草莓
Taiwan 草莓
Harbin 馬林果兒
Cantonese Guangzhou 士多啤梨
Hong Kong 士多啤梨
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 草莓, 刺波仔
Liudui (S. Sixian) 草莓, 刺波仔
Hsinchu (Hailu) 草莓, 竻波仔
Dongshi (Dabu) 草莓, 刺波
Hsinchu (Raoping) 草莓, 竻波仔
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 草莓, 刺波子
Min Dong Fuzhou 草莓
Min Nan Xiamen 草莓
Quanzhou 草莓
Zhangzhou 草莓
Taipei 草莓, 刺波
Kaohsiung 草莓, 刺波
Penang strawberry

Derived terms

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