坐月子
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Chinese
| to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, aeroplane, etc.) | the month following childbirth, during which the mother goes through the traditional Chinese form of postpartum recovery, sometimes referred to in English as or; puerperium | ||
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| simp. and trad. (坐月子) |
坐 | 月子 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard)
- (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): zo4 yue2 zi3
- Cantonese (Jyutping): co5 jyut6 zi2
- Gan (Wiktionary): co5 nyot6 zi
- Jin (Wiktionary): zue3 yeh4 zeh
- Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): zo5 ye6 zr
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄩㄝˋ ˙ㄗ
- Tongyong Pinyin: zuòyuèzi̊h
- Wade–Giles: tso4-yüeh4-tzŭ5
- Yale: dzwò-ywè-dz
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuohyueh.tzy
- Palladius: цзоюэцзы (czojueczy)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡su̯ɔ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɥɛ⁵¹ d͡z̥z̩¹/
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: zo4 yue2 zi3
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: zoyez
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡so²¹³ ye²¹ t͡sz̩⁵³/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: co5 jyut6 zi2
- Yale: chóh yuht jí
- Cantonese Pinyin: tso5 jyt9 dzi2
- Guangdong Romanization: co5 yud6 ji2
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰɔː¹³ jyːt̚² t͡siː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Gan
- (Nanchang)
- Wiktionary: co5 nyot6 zi
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰo¹¹ n̠ʲɵt̚⁵ t͡sz̩²/
- (Nanchang)
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: zue3 yeh4 zeh
- Sinological IPA (old-style, no sandhi): /t͡suɤ⁴⁵ yəʔ² t͡səʔ³/
- (Taiyuan)+
- Xiang
- (Changsha)
- Wiktionary: zo5 ye6 zr
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡so²¹⁻¹¹ y̯e̞²⁴ t͡sz̩³/
- (Changsha)
Verb
坐月子
- to go through yuezi (the traditional Chinese form of postpartum recovery that lasts for one month after childbirth, sometimes referred to in English as confinement, lying-in, or postpartum confinement)