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Chinese
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always; ever; often always; ever; often; frequently; common; general; constant
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(located) at; in; exist (located) at; in; exist; (before verbs) immediately involved in; right in the middle of doing
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simp. and trad. (常在)
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常
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在
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alternative forms
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長在/长在 Hokkien 常哉 Hokkien
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Etymology
- "(Hokkien) often"
- The first character has an irregular pronunciation in this word. The Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary (1932) considers it to be borrowed from Mandarin. Along with John Macgowan's "English and Chinese Dictionary of the Amoy Dialect" (1883), they both interpret chhiâng-chāi as "constantly present", but modern dictionaries, such as 《台灣話大詞典》, assign siông-chāi to that sense.
Pronunciation
Note:
- chhiâng-chāi — "often", obsolete for "to exist always";
- chhêng-chāi — variant for "often".
Verb
常在
- to exist always; to be constantly present
Noun
常在
- (historical) first-class female attendant during the Qing dynasty
Adverb
常在
- (Zhangping and Taiwanese Hokkien) often; frequently; usually
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of
常常 (“often; frequently”)
Variety
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Location
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Words
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Formal (Written Standard Chinese)
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經常, 時常, 常常, 時時, 往往, 每每
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Northeastern Mandarin
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Beijing
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常
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Taiwan
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常常
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Harbin
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時不見兒, 時不當, 時不當兒, 時不常, 時不常兒, 時不時
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Singapore
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常常
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Jilu Mandarin
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Jinan
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常常, 常, 時常
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Central Plains Mandarin
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Xi'an
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常常, 常, 時常
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Southwestern Mandarin
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Chengdu
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時常, 常常, 隨時, 時不時
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Wuhan
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帶常, 時常
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Jianghuai Mandarin
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Yangzhou
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常
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Hefei
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常
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Cantonese
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Guangzhou
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時時, 時常, 長時, 周時, 遇時, 時不時
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Hong Kong
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成日, 經常, 時時, 好多時, 好多時候, 周時, 周不時
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Hong Kong (San Tin; Weitou)
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經常
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Yangjiang
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周時
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Gan
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Nanchang
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千常, 時常
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Hakka
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Meixian
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輒常, 長時, 時常, 時不時
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Miaoli (N. Sixian)
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輒輒, 輒常, 長透, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間, 經常
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Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)
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輒輒, 輒常, 長透, 登常, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間, 經常
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Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)
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輒輒, 輒常, 長透, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間, 經常
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Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)
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輒輒, 長在, 輒常, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 經常
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Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)
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輒輒, 常勻, 輒常, 長透, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間, 經常
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Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)
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輒輒, 不時, 輒, 恬恬, 長透, 時時
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Hong Kong
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長日
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Huizhou
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Jixi
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三不時, 時不時
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Jin
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Taiyuan
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常常, 時常, 時不時
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Eastern Min
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Fuzhou
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稠稠, 稠, 盡稠
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Southern Min
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Xiamen
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定定, 長長, 四常, 時常, 常常, 不時, 不期時
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Quanzhou
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定定, 長長, 四常, 時常, 常常, 不時
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Zhangzhou
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定定, 時常, 常常, 不時, 不期時
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Tainan
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定定, 時常, 常常, 不時, 捷捷, 沓沓, 常在, 往往
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Manila (Hokkien)
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定定, 常常, 四常, 不時
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Chaozhou
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長時, 惦惦
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Shantou
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經常, 時常, 時時, 惦惦
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Bangkok (Teochew)
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惦惦
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Leizhou
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長世, 長常
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Wu
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Shanghai
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常樁, 常常, 經常
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Shanghai (Chongming)
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千常
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Suzhou
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時常, 常時, 常樁
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Ningbo
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老老, 老長 rare, 長常 rare, 長時 rare
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Wenzhou
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清清, 常期
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Xiang
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Changsha
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練常, 打常, 扯常, 扯常子, 時不時
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Shuangfeng
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練常, 常常
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Derived terms
References
- 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “常在”, in 臺日大辭典 (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
- Macgowan, John (1883) “Present”, in English and Chinese Dictionary of the Amoy Dialect, Amoy & London: A. A. Marcal and Trubner & Co. 57 Ludgate Hill, page 397
- 《台灣話大詞典》 (Tâi-ôan-ōe tōa-sû-tián), Taipei, 2002 →ISBN