浪子

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Chinese

		wave; breaker; unrestrained wave; breaker; unrestrained; dissipated	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
simp. and trad. (浪子)		浪	子

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): làngzǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄤˋ ㄗˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): long⁶ zi²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): long-chṳ́
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lōng-chú / lōng-chír

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: làngzǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄤˋ ㄗˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: làngzǐh
  - Wade–Giles: lang⁴-tzŭ³
  - Yale: làng-dž
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lanqtzyy
  - Palladius: ланцзы (lanczy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑŋ⁵¹ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: long⁶ zi²
  - Yale: lohng jí
  - Cantonese Pinyin: long⁶ dzi²
  - Guangdong Romanization: long⁶ ji²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔːŋ²² t͡siː³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: long-chṳ́
  - Hakka Romanization System: long zii^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: long⁴ zi³
  - Sinological IPA: /loŋ⁵⁵ t͡sɨ³¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lōng-chú
  - Tâi-lô: lōng-tsú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: loxngzuo
  - IPA (Taipei): /lɔŋ³³⁻¹¹ t͡su⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɔŋ³³⁻²¹ t͡su⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /lɔŋ²²⁻²¹ t͡su⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lōng-chír
  - Tâi-lô: lōng-tsír
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔŋ⁴¹⁻²² t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴/

Noun

浪子

loafer; wastrel

Synonyms

(literary) 流人 (liúrén)
(Hokkien) 𨑨迌囝, 𨑨迌囡仔

Derived terms

擺浪子／摆浪子
浪子喪門／浪子丧门
浪子回頭／浪子回头
浪子回頭金不換／浪子回头金不换 (làngzǐ huítóu jīn bù huàn)
游頭浪子／游头浪子

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (浪子):

→ Vietnamese: lãng tử (浪子)

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): nang⁴ zi³

Mandarin
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: nang⁴ zi³
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: langz
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /naŋ²¹³ t͡sz̩⁵³/

Noun

浪子

(Sichuanese) wave (moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid)

Synonyms

波浪 (bōlàng)
波濤／波涛 (bōtāo)
波瀾／波澜 (bōlán) (literary)
浪濤／浪涛 (làngtāo)

Dialectal synonyms of 浪 (“wave”)

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		瀾, 浪
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		浪
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	浪
Northeastern Mandarin	Singapore	浪
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	浪頭
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	浪
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	浪子
Cantonese	Hong Kong	浪
Gan	Nanchang	浪
Huizhou	Jixi	浪頭
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	浪
Southern Min	Xiamen	湧
	Quanzhou	湧
	Zhangzhou	湧
	Tainan	湧
	Jieyang	湧
	Leizhou	湧
	Haikou	湧
Wu	Shanghai	浪頭, 波浪
	Shanghai (Chongming)	浪頭
	Ningbo	浪頭, 浪

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
浪	子

Noun

浪子

chữ Hán form of lãng tử (“(literary) wanderer; vagabond”).

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