薅草

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Chinese

		pull out (weed)	grass; straw; draft (of a document) grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty
trad. (薅草)		薅	草
simp. ^#(薅草)		薅	草

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hāocǎo

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄠㄘㄠˇ
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hao¹ cao³ / haoⁿ¹ cao³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khau-chháu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hāocǎo
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄠㄘㄠˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: haocǎo
  - Wade–Giles: hao¹-tsʻao³
  - Yale: hāu-tsǎu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hautsao
  - Palladius: хаоцао (xaocao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hao¹ cao³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hau⁵³³⁻²¹ ^(t͡sʰ-)lau⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: haoⁿ¹ cao³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hãũ⁵³³⁻²¹ t͡sʰau³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khau-chháu
  - Tâi-lô: khau-tsháu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qauzhao
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kʰau⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰau⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰau³³ t͡sʰau⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰau⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰau⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kʰau⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰau⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰau⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰau⁴¹/

Verb

薅草

to pull out weeds

Synonyms

㔊草 (Hokkien)
扯草 (cha³ cau³) (Xiang)
拔草 (bácǎo)
掹草 (mang¹ cou²) (Cantonese)
鋤草／锄草 (chúcǎo)
除草 (chúcǎo)

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “薅草”, in 莆仙方言大词典 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 259.

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