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Chinese
Pronunciation
Noun
番仔婆
- (Mainland China Hokkien) foreign woman (especially natives of Southeast Asia)
- (Jinjiang Hokkien) foreign wife of overseas Chinese
- (Philippine Hokkien, literal) native non-Chinese woman
- 𤆬番仔婆 ― chhōa hoan-á-pô ― to marry a native woman as wife
- (Philippine Hokkien) local domestic maid; local nanny; local caregiver; local nursemaid
- 倩番仔婆 ― chhiàⁿ hoan-á-pô ― to hire a local domestic nursemaid
Synonyms
- (Hokkien) 番婆 (hoan-pô), 番婆仔 (hoan-pô-á) (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
- (local domestic maid): (Hokkien) 查某𡢃／查某㛠 (cha-bó͘-kán)
Dialectal synonyms of
婢女 (“servant girl”)
| Variety
|
Location
|
Words
|
| Classical Chinese
|
婢
|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese)
|
婢女, 女婢, 丫鬟, 丫頭, 使女
|
| Northeastern Mandarin
|
Beijing
|
丫鬟, 丫鬟兒, 丫頭子
|
| Harbin
|
丫鬟
|
| Jilu Mandarin
|
Jinan
|
支使丫頭
|
| Jiaoliao Mandarin
|
Yantai (Muping)
|
丫鬟兒
|
| Central Plains Mandarin
|
Luoyang
|
丫頭
|
| Wanrong
|
丫鬟
|
| Xi'an
|
丫頭子
|
| Xining
|
丫鬟, 丫頭
|
| Xuzhou
|
使用丫頭子, 使用丫頭
|
| Lanyin Mandarin
|
Yinchuan
|
使喚丫頭, 使喚
|
| Lanzhou
|
丫鬟, 丫頭
|
| Ürümqi
|
使喚丫頭, 丫鬟
|
| Southwestern Mandarin
|
Chengdu
|
丫頭兒, 丫頭子, 丫鬟
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| Wuhan
|
丫頭
|
| Guiyang
|
丫頭
|
| Liuzhou
|
丫頭, 妹崽
|
| Jianghuai Mandarin
|
Nanjing
|
丫頭兒, 小丫頭兒
|
| Yangzhou
|
丫頭
|
| Cantonese
|
Guangzhou
|
妹仔
|
| Hong Kong
|
妹仔
|
| Taishan
|
妹女
|
| Kaiping (Chikan)
|
妹仔
|
| Dongguan
|
妹仔
|
| Yangjiang
|
妹仔, 養妹仔
|
| Gan
|
Nanchang
|
丫頭
|
| Lichuan
|
姨婆
|
| Pingxiang
|
丫鬟
|
| Hakka
|
Meixian
|
細老婢, 老婢仔
|
| Yudu
|
婢婆
|
| Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)
|
使女
|
| Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)
|
使婢
|
| Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)
|
使女
|
| Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)
|
使女
|
| Huizhou
|
Jixi
|
丫頭
|
| Jin
|
Taiyuan
|
蠻妮子, 妮子
|
| Xinzhou
|
丫花
|
| Northern Min
|
Jian'ou
|
奶婆
|
| Eastern Min
|
Fuzhou
|
丫頭, 丫鬟, 丫頭囝, 義女
|
| Southern Min
|
Xiamen
|
查某𡢃仔, 查某𡢃, 𡢃婢
|
| Quanzhou
|
查某𡢃, 𡢃婢
|
| Zhangzhou
|
查某𡢃仔, 查某𡢃, 𡢃婢, 撽作
|
| Taipei
|
查某𡢃
|
| New Taipei (Sanxia)
|
查某𡢃仔
|
| Kaohsiung
|
查某𡢃
|
| Yilan
|
查某𡢃
|
| Changhua (Lukang)
|
查某𡢃
|
| Taichung
|
查某𡢃仔
|
| Tainan
|
查某𡢃仔
|
| Hsinchu
|
查某𡢃仔
|
| Kinmen
|
娘𡢃
|
| Penghu (Magong)
|
查某𡢃
|
| Manila (Hokkien)
|
番仔婆, 查某𡢃, 番婆
|
| Longyan
|
跤作, 跤作仔
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| Shantou
|
赤跤囝, 花囝
|
| Leizhou
|
妹囝
|
| Haikou
|
儂囝
|
| Zhongshan Min
|
Zhongshan (Sanxiang)
|
妹囝
|
| Southern Pinghua
|
Nanning (Tingzi)
|
妹崽, 丫鬟
|
| Wu
|
Shanghai
|
丫頭, 使女
|
| Suzhou
|
丫頭
|
| Danyang
|
丫鬟
|
| Hangzhou
|
丫頭
|
| Ningbo
|
丫頭, 丫頭屄
|
| Wenzhou
|
細奶兒, 丫頭, 丫鬟
|
| Jinhua
|
囡女
|
| Xiang
|
Changsha
|
丫鬟, 丫頭
|
See also
Further reading
- Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum (overall work in Early Modern Spanish, Hokkien, and Classical Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, 1626-1642; republished as Lee, Fabio Yuchung (李毓中), Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), José, Regalado Trota, Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum, Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN