乞雨

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Chinese

		beg	rain
trad. (乞雨)		乞	雨
simp. ^#(乞雨)		乞	雨

Pronunciation

Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): koh⁶ hou⁵ / kuoh⁶ hou⁵
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khit-hō͘ / khit-hǒ͘

Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: koh⁶ hou⁵
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: keoh-hō
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɔʔ²¹⁻⁴² hɔu¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: kuoh⁶ hou⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰuoʔ²⁻⁴ hɔu²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Yongchun, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khit-hō͘
  - Tâi-lô: khit-hōo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qitho
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰit̚³²⁻⁵ hɔ²²/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kʰit̚³²⁻⁴ hɔ³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Yongchun): /kʰit̚³²⁻⁴ hɔ²²/
- (Hokkien: Jinjiang)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khit-hǒ͘
  - Tâi-lô: khit-hǒo
  - IPA (Jinjiang): /kʰit̚⁵⁻²⁴ hɔ³³/

Verb

乞雨

(Hokkien, Puxian Min) to pray for rain

Synonyms

祈雨 (qíyǔ)
求雨 (qiúyǔ)

References

小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “乞雨”, in 臺日大辭典 ‎ (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “乞雨”, in 莆仙方言大词典 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 329.

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