種珠

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Chinese

		to plant; to cultivate; kind to plant; to cultivate; kind; type; race; breed; seed; species (taxonomy)	pearl; bead
trad. (種珠)		種	珠
simp. (种珠)		种	珠

Pronunciation

Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zoeng⁴ zou¹ / zyeng⁴ zou¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chèng-chu

(Teochew, Peng'im): zêng³ zu¹

Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zoeng⁴ zou¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sœŋ⁴²⁻⁵⁵ t͡sɔu⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zyeng⁴ zou¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syøŋ⁴²⁻⁵⁵ t͡sɔu⁵³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chèng-chu
  - Tâi-lô: tsìng-tsu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zeangzw
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siɪŋ²¹⁻⁴¹ t͡su⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡siɪŋ¹¹⁻⁵³ t͡su⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Singapore): /t͡seŋ²¹⁻⁴² t͡su⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡siɪŋ²¹⁻⁵³ t͡su⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: zêng³ zu¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsèng tsu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡seŋ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ t͡su³³/

Verb

種珠

(Hokkien, Teochew, Puxian Min, immunology) to vaccinate against smallpox
- 爾能種痘麽 [Teochew, trad.]
  尔能种痘么 [Teochew, simp.]
  From: 1841, William Dean, First Lessons in the Tie-chiw Dialect, “Diseases”
  le² oi⁶ zêng³ zu¹ meh⁴ [Peng'im]
  do you understand inoculation

Synonyms

種汞 / 种汞 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
種牛痘 / 种牛痘 (zhòng niúdòu)
種痘 / 种痘 (zhòngdòu)
種花 / 种花 (zhònghuā) (dialectal)
點痘子 / 点痘子 (dienn³ dou⁵ zr) (Xiang)

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “种珠”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 576.

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