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啥人

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More information (dialect) what, man; person; people ...

Pronunciation

Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siáⁿ-lâng / sáⁿ-lâng / siâng / sâng / siáng
Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁵sa-gnin₆ / ⁵sa-gnin₂ / ⁷soq-gnin₂; ⁵sou₁-gnin₂; ⁵so₁-gnin₂

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese, Sanxia, Yilan, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siáⁿ-lâng
  - Tâi-lô: siánn-lâng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sviaflaang
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /siã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ laŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Singapore): /siã⁴²⁻²⁴ laŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Yilan): /siã⁵³⁻⁵⁵ laŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /siã⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ laŋ²³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /siã⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ laŋ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sáⁿ-lâng
  - Tâi-lô: sánn-lâng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: svaflaang
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /sã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ laŋ¹³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Jinjiang, Lukang, Yilan, Hsinchu, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siâng
  - Tâi-lô: siâng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siaang
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Jinjiang, Lukang, Yilan, Singapore): /siaŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /siaŋ²³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sâng
  - Tâi-lô: sâng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: saang
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /saŋ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siáng
  - Tâi-lô: siáng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siarng
  - IPA (Taipei): /siaŋ⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /siaŋ⁴¹/

Note: siâng, sâng, siáng - contractions.

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵sa-gnin₆
  - MiniDict: sa^去 nyin^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²sa-nyin₃
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /sa³³ n̠ʲin⁴⁴/
- (Northern: Suzhou)
  - Wugniu: ⁵sa-gnin₂
  - MiniDict: sa^去 nyin^平
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /sɑ⁵² n̠ʲin³³/
- (Northern: Ningbo)
  - Wugniu: ⁷soq-gnin₂; ⁵sou₁-gnin₂; ⁵so₁-gnin₂
  - MiniDict: soh^入 nyin^平; sou^平 nyin^平; so^平 nyin^平
  - Sinological IPA (Ningbo): /soʔ⁵⁵ n̠ʲiŋ³³/, /səu⁵⁵ n̠ʲiŋ³³/, /so⁵⁵ n̠ʲiŋ³³/

Pronoun

啥人

(dialectal Mandarin, Hokkien, Wu) who
啥人曉得今朝夜裏停電？ [Shanghainese, trad.]
啥人晓得今朝夜里停电？ [Shanghainese, simp.]
⁵sa-gnin ⁵shiau-teq ¹cin-zau ⁶ya-li ⁶din ⁶di [Wugniu]
Who had known that there will be a blackout tonight?
- (Can we date this quote?), “家後 [Wife]”, performed by 江蕙 [Jody Chiang]:
  
  人情世事已經看透透，有啥人比你卡重要？ [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
  人情世事已经看透透，有啥人比你卡重要？ [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]
  Lîn-chêng-sè-sū í-keng khòaⁿ-thàu-thàu, ū siáⁿ-lâng pí lí khah tiōng-iàu? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
  [I] have already thoroughly seen the ways of the world. Who is more important than you?
- 2023, Wong Kar-wai, 繁花 [fánhuā, Blossoms Shanghai], episode 1, spoken by Ah Bao (Hu Ge):
  
  儂尋啥人啊？ [Shanghainese, trad.]
  侬寻啥人啊？ [Shanghainese, simp.]
  ⁶non ⁶zhin ⁵sa-gnin₆-a₀ [Wugniu]
  Who are you looking for?

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 誰 (“who; whom”) [map]

More information Variety, Location ...

Derived terms

仙人拍鼓有時錯，跤步踏差啥人無 / 仙人拍鼓有时错，跤步踏差啥人无 (sian-jîn phah kó͘ iú sî chhò, kha-pō͘ ta̍h-chha siáⁿ-lâng bô) (Min Nan)
誰仔 / 谁仔 (siâng-â)

References

(Min Nan) “啥人”, 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.

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