雪茄

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (雪茄)		雪	茄

Etymology

Borrowed from English cigar.

Folk etymology commonly describes poet Xu Zhimo (1897–1931) as coining this translation in 1924, in a casual conversation with Rabindranath Tagore, on the grounds that the cigar is similar to lotus stem (茄) and the ash is similar to snow (雪). However, this term had already been used in 《出使英法義比四國日記續》, a late 19^th century text, and Officialdom Unmasked, a 1903 novel.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xuějiā

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄝˇ ㄐㄧㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): syut³ gaa¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): siet-kâ / siè-chia
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): soat-ka

(Teochew, Peng'im): soh⁴ gia¹
Wu (Wiktionary): xiq ga (T4)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: xuějiā
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄝˇ ㄐㄧㄚ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheuejia
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕɥ̯œ²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ t͡ɕi̯a̠⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Pinyin: xuějiār
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄝˇ ㄐㄧㄚㄦ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheuejial
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕɥ̯œ²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ t͡ɕjɑɻ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: syut³ gaa¹
  - Yale: syut gā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: syt⁸ gaa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: xud³ ga¹
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕyːt̚³ kaː⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: siet-kâ / siè-chia
  - Hakka Romanization System: xied` ga´ / xieˇ jia
  - Hagfa Pinyim: xiad⁵ ga¹ / xie² jia⁴
  - IPA: /ɕi̯et̚² ka²⁴/, /ɕi̯e¹¹ t͡ɕi̯a⁵⁵/

Note: siè-chia - from Mandarin.

Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soat-ka
  - Tâi-lô: suat-ka
  - Phofsit Daibuun: soatkaf
  - IPA (Xiamen): /suat̚³²⁻⁴ ka⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: soh⁴ gia¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: soh kia
  - IPA ^(key): /soʔ²⁻⁴ kia³³/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: xiq ga (T4)
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɪʔ³³ g̊a̱⁴⁴/

Noun

雪茄

(～煙) cigar (Classifier: 支 m c)

Synonyms

(Min Nan) 珠律
呂宋煙／吕宋烟
(Min) 呂宋薰／吕宋薰

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