媽祖生

Chinese

		Mazu	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
trad. (媽祖生)		媽祖	生
simp. (妈祖生)		妈祖	生

Pronunciation

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): Mâ-chú-sâng

  (Hailu, HRS): ma^ˋ zu^ˊ sang^ˋ

• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ma³ zou³ sa¹ / ma³ zou³ sann¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Má-chó͘-seⁿ / Má-chó͘-siⁿ

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• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Mâ-chú-sâng
    • Hakka Romanization System: ma^ˊ zu^ˋ sang^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ma¹ zu³ sang¹
    • Sinological IPA: /ma²⁴ t͡su³¹ saŋ²⁴/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: ma^ˋ zu^ˊ sang^ˋ
    • Sinological IPA: /ma⁵³ t͡su²⁴⁻³³ saŋ⁵³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ma³ zou³ sa¹ [Phonetic: ma⁵ lou⁵ la¹]
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: Mâ-cô-saⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ma⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ ^(t͡s-)lɔu⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ ^(ɬ-)la⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ma³ zou³ sann¹ [Phonetic: ma⁵ lou⁵ na¹]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ma³³²⁻²¹ ^(t͡s-)lɔu³³²⁻²¹ ^(ɬ-)na⁵⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Má-chó͘-seⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: Má-tsóo-senn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mafzofsvef
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /mã⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sɔ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ sẽ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Má-chó͘-siⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: Má-tsóo-sinn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mafzofsvy
    • IPA (Taipei): /mã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sĩ⁴⁴/

Proper noun

媽祖生

1. (Hokkien, Taiwanese Hakka, Chinese folk religion) the birthday of Mazu on the twenty-third day of the third month of the Chinese calendar

Synonyms

• 天后誕

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “妈祖生”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 375.