踢館

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Chinese

		kick; play (football or soccer)	house; establishment
trad. (踢館)		踢	館
simp. (踢馆)		踢	馆

Wikipedia has articles on:

踢館 (Cantonese)
踢館 (Written Standard Chinese^?)

Etymology

Originally Cantonese.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tīguǎn

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄍㄨㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tek³ gun²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): that-koán

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tīguǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄍㄨㄢˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tiguǎn
  - Wade–Giles: tʻi¹-kuan³
  - Yale: tī-gwǎn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tigoan
  - Palladius: тигуань (tiguanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi⁵⁵ ku̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tek³ gun²
  - Yale: tek gún
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tek⁸ gun²
  - Guangdong Romanization: tég³ gun²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɛːk̚³ kuːn³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: that-koán
  - Tâi-lô: that-kuán
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tatkoarn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰat̚³²⁻⁴ kuan⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰat̚⁵⁻²⁴ kuan⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰat̚³²⁻⁵ kuan⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰat̚³²⁻⁴ kuan⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰat̚³²⁻⁴ kuan⁴¹/

Verb

踢館

(martial arts) to openly challenge another master at their martial arts club and demand a fair fight
(figurative, in general) to openly challenge someone renowned; to challenge someone to a competition (as an outsider); to throw down the gauntlet

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