勼跤

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Chinese

			bones of leg; wrestle
simp. and trad. (勼跤)		勼	跤
alternative forms		勼腳／勼脚勼骹

Pronunciation

Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): giu¹ kor¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kiu-kha

Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: giu¹ kor¹
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: giu-ko̤
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiu⁵³³⁻¹¹ ^(kʰ-)ɒ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: giu¹ kor¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiu⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ ^(kʰ-)ɒ⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiu-kha
  - Tâi-lô: kiu-kha
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kiu'qaf
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kiu⁴⁴⁻²² kʰa⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kiu³³ kʰa³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiu⁴⁴⁻²² kʰa⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kiu⁴⁴⁻³³ kʰa⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiu⁴⁴⁻³³ kʰa⁴⁴/

Verb

勼跤

(literary) to pull one's feet back
(Hokkien, Puxian Min) to shrink back and change one's mind (upon encountering difficulty)
(Mainland China Hokkien) to retreat; to withdraw

Synonyms

(to retreat): 退卻／退却 (tuìquè), 撤退 (chètuì)

Derived terms

勼跤勼手

See also

勼手

References

“勼跤”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “勼骹”, in 莆仙方言大词典 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 221.

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