雙頭蛇

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Chinese

		both sides; both parties	snake; serpent
trad. (雙頭蛇)		雙頭	蛇
simp. (双头蛇)		双头	蛇

Pronunciation

Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sang¹ tao² syor² / sang¹ tao² sya²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siang-thâu-chôa

Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sang¹ tao² syor²
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sang-táu-sió̤
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬaŋ⁵³³⁻¹¹ ^(tʰ-)nau¹³⁻¹¹ ^(ɬ-)lyɒ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sang¹ tao² sya²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬaŋ⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ ^(tʰ-)nau²⁴⁻²¹ ^(ɬ-)lya²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siang-thâu-chôa
  - Tâi-lô: siang-thâu-tsuâ
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siangtauzoaa
  - IPA (Taipei): /siaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰau²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sua²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /siaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰau²³⁻³³ t͡sua²³/

Noun

雙頭蛇

(literal) snake with two heads
(Hokkien, Puxian Min) a two-faced person, a fence-sitter

References

小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “雙頭蛇”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎ (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “双头蛇”, 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 463.

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