管待

Chinese

		to take care (of); to control; to manage to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; tube; pipe	wait; treat; deal with wait; treat; deal with; need; about; intending to do something; stay; delay
trad. (管待)		管	待
simp. #(管待)		管	待

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guǎndài

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢˇ ㄉㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gun² doi⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): koán-thāi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guǎndài
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢˇ ㄉㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guǎndài
    • Wade–Giles: kuan³-tai⁴
    • Yale: gwǎn-dài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: goanday
    • Palladius: гуаньдай (guanʹdaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹ taɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gun² doi⁶
    • Yale: gún doih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gun² doi⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: gun² doi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuːn³⁵ tɔːi̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koán-thāi
    • Tâi-lô: kuán-thāi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koafntai
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kuan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰai²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kuan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ tʰai⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰai²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kuan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰai³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kuan⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tʰai³³/

Verb

管待

1. to wait on; to serve
2. (Southern Min) to heed; to pay attention to

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 理 (“to be concerned with; to pay attention to”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		理, 管, 睬, 理睬, 理會
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	理, 搭理, 搭咯
	Taiwan	理, 管
	Singapore	理, 管
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	理, 搭理
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	招, 理
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	理, 睬, 理視, 耳視, 張視
	Wuhan	邇, 理, 睬
	Guilin	理
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	睬
	Hefei	理, 睬
Cantonese	Guangzhou	睬, 理, 騷
	Hong Kong	睬, 理, 騷
	Yangjiang	理, 睬
	Singapore (Guangfu)	理
Gan	Nanchang	理, 搭
Hakka	Meixian	睬, 唰
Jin	Taiyuan	理, 理睬
Northern Min	Jian'ou	理
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	叕, 插
Southern Min	Xiamen	插, 插趖, 插潲, 插管, 管待, 嘀厾, 理落
	Quanzhou	插, 插趖, 插潲, 嘀厾
	Zhangzhou	插, 插潲, 插管, 管待
	Tainan	插, 管, 管待
	Penang (Hokkien)	插潲
	Singapore (Hokkien)	插, 插潲, 管, 插管, 甩
	Manila (Hokkien)	插, 插潲, 管
	Chaozhou	睬
	Shantou	理
	Jieyang	睬
	Singapore (Teochew)	插
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	理
Wu	Shanghai	睬, 理 rare
	Suzhou	理, 睬
	Wenzhou	朝, 理
Xiang	Changsha	齒
	Shuangfeng	齒, 搭, 邇

References

• “管待”, 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.