歌仔

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Chinese

		song	minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility
simp. and trad. (歌仔)		歌	仔

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gēzǎi

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄜㄗㄞˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): go¹ zai²
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): kô-é

(Meixian, Guangdong): go¹ ê³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): koa-á

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gēzǎi
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄜㄗㄞˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gezǎi
  - Wade–Giles: ko¹-tsai³
  - Yale: gē-dzǎi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: getzae
  - Palladius: гэцзай (gɛczaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤ⁵⁵ t͡saɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: go¹ zai²
  - Yale: gō jái
  - Cantonese Pinyin: go¹ dzai²
  - Guangdong Romanization: go¹ zei²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔː⁵⁵ t͡sɐi̯³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kô-é
  - Hakka Romanization System: go^ˊ e^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: go¹ e³
  - Sinological IPA: /ko²⁴ e³¹/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: go¹ ê³
  - Sinological IPA: /ko⁴⁴⁻³⁵ (ʋ)e³¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koa-á
  - Tâi-lô: kua-á
  - Phofsit Daibuun: koa'ar
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kua⁴⁴⁻²² a⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kua³³ a⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kua⁴⁴⁻²² a⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kua⁴⁴⁻³³ a⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kua⁴⁴⁻³³ a⁴¹/

Noun

歌仔

(Cantonese, Hakka, Southern Min) song (Classifier: 首; 支 c; 條／条 h mn)
乜你咁輕鬆，喺度唱歌仔啊？ [Cantonese, trad.]
乜你咁轻松，喺度唱歌仔啊？ [Cantonese, simp.]
mat¹ nei⁵ gam³ hing¹ sung¹, hai² dou⁶ coeng³ go¹ zai² aa³?
Why, you're singing so relaxedly! (sarcastic)
(Southern Min) folk song, especially a Hokkien ballad

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Synonyms

(Hokkien ballad): (Min Nan) 錦歌／锦歌 (jǐngē)

Derived terms

References

“Entry #10609”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

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