乾巴巴

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Chinese

dry; clean; male
dry; clean; male; strong; one of the Eight Trigrams; surname
 
 very; extremely
trad. (乾巴巴) 乾 巴巴
simp. (干巴巴) 干 巴巴

Pronunciation

Adjective

乾巴巴

  1. (ideophonic, of land, food, etc.) dry and hard; parched
  2. (ideophonic, of speech, writing, etc.) dull; boring; insipid

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 乾巴巴 (“(expressive) dry”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 乾巴巴
Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 乾巴巴
Central Plains Mandarin Luoyang 乾巴巴
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 乾吱吱
Guiyang 乾悄悄
Cantonese Guangzhou 乾爭爭, 乾繃繃, 乾鯁鯁 of food
Hong Kong 乾爭爭, 乾鯁鯁 of food
Hakka Meixian 乾業業, 乾牛牛, 燥業業, 燥藞藞
Eastern Min Fuzhou 乾焦焦, 乾乾焦
Southern Min Xiamen 焦布布, 焦涸涸, 焦瘼瘼
Tainan 焦涸涸
Shantou 乾巴巴
Wu Shanghai (Chongming) 乾誇誇
Danyang 乾卜卜
Ningbo 乾剝剝
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