佇咧

Chinese

		wait; look towards; turn one's back on	draw back corners of mouth; child's cry
trad. (佇咧)		佇	咧
simp. (伫咧)		伫	咧
alternative forms		在咧 置咧 治咧 佇啲 佇塊／伫块 在咧 置咧 治咧 佇啲 佇塊／伫块 治塊／治块 著塊／著块 箸塊／箸块 在處／在处 obsolete

Etymology

From 佇 (tī, tǐr, “at”) + 塊 / 块 (tè, tèr, “place”); written as 在處 in Tale of the Lychee Mirror (Lien, 2015). Compare Cantonese 喺度 (hai² dou⁶).

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tī-le̍h / tǐr-lér / tī-leh / tī-teh / tǐ-lé / tǐ-té

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tī-le̍h
    • Tâi-lô: tī-le̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dixleh
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ti²²⁻²¹ leʔ⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tǐr-lér
    • Tâi-lô: tǐr-lér
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɯ²² lə⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tī-leh
    • Tâi-lô: tī-leh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dixleq
    • IPA (Taipei): /ti³³⁻¹¹ leʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ti³³⁻²¹ leʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tī-teh
    • Tâi-lô: tī-teh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dixdeq
    • IPA (Taipei): /ti³³⁻¹¹ teʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ti³³⁻²¹ teʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: Jinjiang, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tǐ-lé
    • Tâi-lô: tǐ-lé
    • IPA (Jinjiang, Philippines): /ti³³⁻²² le⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tǐ-té
    • Tâi-lô: tǐ-té
    • IPA (Philippines): /ti³³⁻²² te⁵⁵⁴/

Adverb

佇咧

1. (Southern Min) in the process of; currently

   我佇咧食飯。 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
   我伫咧食饭。 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

   Góa tī-leh chia̍h-pn̄g. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   I'm eating.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 正在 (“in the process of; currently”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		正在, 刻正
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	正在, 在
	Taiwan	正在, 在
	Malaysia	正在, 在
	Singapore	正在, 在
Southwestern Mandarin	Guilin	在
Cantonese	Guangzhou	喺度, 喺處, 響度, 響處
	Hong Kong	喺度, 喺處, 響度, 響處
	Singapore (Guangfu)	喺度
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	當, 在該, 當在
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	當, 在該
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	當, 在該
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	當, 在該
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	當, 在該
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	正在, 在遐
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	著𡅏, 𡅏
	Fuqing	著𡅏
	Singapore (Fuqing)	著𡅏
Southern Min	Xiamen	佇咧, 咧, 當咧, 拄咧, 拄佇咧
	Quanzhou	佇咧, 咧, 當咧, 拄咧, 拄佇咧
	Zhangzhou	咧, 當咧, 拄咧, 當時
	Tainan	佇咧, 咧, 當咧
	Penang (Hokkien)	佇
	Singapore (Hokkien)	佇, 佇咧
	Manila (Hokkien)	佇咧, 咧
	Shantou	在
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	在
	Singapore (Teochew)	在
Wu	Shanghai	垃, 垃垃, 垃拉, 垃海, 垃該
	Ningbo	來, 來的, 來該, 來當, 來東, 來勒
	Wenzhou	是, 是搭

Verb

佇咧

1. (Southern Min) to exist, to be (in a place)

   伊有佇咧無？ [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
   伊有伫咧无？ [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

   I ū tī-leh bô? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   Is she/he here?

   • 願主耶穌的恩典佮眾聖徒相佮佇咧。亞孟。 [Hokkien, trad.]
     愿主耶稣的恩典佮众圣徒相佮伫咧。亚孟。 [Hokkien, simp.]

     From: 巴克禮譯本 (Barclay Amoy Romanized Bible), 啟示錄 (Revelation) 22:21

     Goān Chú Ia-so͘ ê un-tián kap chèng sèng-tô͘ saⁿ-kap tī-teh. À-bēng. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen.

References

• “佇咧”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.