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番仔
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Chinese
Etymology
Compare 番囝.
Pronunciation
- Hakka
- Northern Min (KCR): huáing-ciě
- Southern Min
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fân-é
- Hakka Romanization System: fanˊ eˋ
- Hagfa Pinyim: fan1 e3
- Sinological IPA: /fan²⁴ e³¹/
- (Meixian)
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
- Kienning Colloquial Romanized: huáing-ciě
- Sinological IPA (key): /xuaiŋ⁵⁴ t͡siɛ²¹/
- (Jian'ou)
- Southern Min
Noun
番仔
- (Northern Min; Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien; dated in Meixian Hakka; possibly derogatory) foreigner; Westerner
- A native in a land where the Chinese are immigrants:
- Late Qing/Early Republic, 《古板秦世美全歌》, volume 3, 潮州 [Chaozhou]: 李萬利, page 8:
- (Taiwanese Hokkien and Hakka, usually derogatory) (Taiwanese) aborigine
- (Malaysian and Singapore Hokkien) Malay person
- (Philippine Hokkien, sometimes derogatory) Filipino person of native or non-Chinese origin
- (Indonesian Hokkien, sometimes derogatory) Indonesian person of native origin; pribumi
- (Taiwanese Hokkien, derogatory) unreasonable person
- (Malaysian and Singapore Hokkien) the Malay language
- 講番仔/讲番仔 [Hokkien] ― kóng hoan-á [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― to speak Malay
Synonyms
- (Taiwanese aborigine): (Hokkien) 土番
Adjective
番仔
- (Northern Min, Mainland China Hokkien) foreign; originating from foreign countries
- (Taiwanese, Singapore, Malaysian, Indonesian and Philippine Hokkien) native; inlander; indigenous (originating from the native peoples before ethnic Chinese migration/settlement, especially the Austronesian ethnolinguistic groups and sometimes the Negritos, Orang Asli, and sometimes by extension, the Filipino mestizos and Peranakans (Baba-Nyonya))
Derived terms
Descendants
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