咿唔

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Chinese

		(onomat.)	hold in mouth; bite; (Cant.) no/not
simp. and trad. (咿唔)		咿	唔
alternative forms		伊吾

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yīwú

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ji¹ ng⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yīwú
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄨˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yiwú
  - Wade–Giles: i¹-wu²
  - Yale: yī-wú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iwu
  - Palladius: иу (iu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵ u³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ji¹ ng⁴
  - Yale: yī ǹgh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ji¹ ng⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: yi¹ ng⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː⁵⁵ ŋ̍²¹/

Noun

咿唔

(literary) sound of recitation

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (咿唔):

→ Japanese: 咿唔(いご) (igo)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
咿	唔
い Hyōgai	ご Hyōgai
on'yomi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):

Noun

咿(い)唔(ご) • (igo)

sound of reading aloud
Synonym: 唔咿 (goi)
mumbling

References

“咿唔”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months

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