甘蜜

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Chinese

		sweet; willingly; Gansu province (abbrev.)	honey
simp. and trad. (甘蜜)		甘	蜜

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Malay gambir (“gambier”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gānmì

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄢㄇㄧˋ
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): kam-bi̍t

(Teochew, Peng'im): gam¹ bhig⁸

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gānmì
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄢㄇㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ganmì
  - Wade–Giles: kan¹-mi⁴
  - Yale: gān-mì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ganmih
  - Palladius: ганьми (ganʹmi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kän⁵⁵ mi⁵¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kam-bi̍t
  - Tâi-lô: kam-bi̍t
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kambit
  - IPA (Singapore): /kam⁴⁴⁻²² bit̚⁴³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: gam¹ bhig⁸
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kam bi̍k
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kam³³⁻²³ bik̚⁴/

Noun

甘蜜

(chiefly Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore) gambier (Uncaria gambir)

References

Lim Hiong Seng (1886) “Commercial”, in Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press, page 119

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