肉圓

Chinese

		meat; flesh	circle; round; circular circle; round; circular; spherical; (of the moon) full; unit of Chinese currency (Yuan); tactful; to justify
trad. (肉圓)		肉	圓
simp. (肉圆)		肉	圆
anagram		圓肉／圆肉
Literally: “meat circle”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ròuyuán

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄡˋ ㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): juk⁶ jyun⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): bah-oân / mah-îⁿ / mah-oân

  (Teochew, Peng'im): nêg⁸ in⁵

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸gnioq-yoe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ròuyuán
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄡˋ ㄩㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ròuyuán
    • Wade–Giles: jou⁴-yüan²
    • Yale: ròu-ywán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rowyuan
    • Palladius: жоуюань (žoujuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐoʊ̯⁵¹ ɥɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)⁺
    • Jyutping: juk⁶ jyun⁴
    • Yale: yuhk yùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁹ jyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yug⁶ yun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚² jyːn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bah-oân
    • Tâi-lô: bah-uân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bah'oaan
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ uan²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ uan²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mah-îⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: mah-înn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mah'vii
    • IPA (Philippines): /ma(ʔ)⁵ ĩ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mah-oân
    • Tâi-lô: mah-uân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mah'oaan
    • IPA (Philippines): /ma(ʔ)⁵ uan²⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: nêg⁸ in⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ne̍k îⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nek̚⁴⁻² ĩ⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁸gnioq-yoe
    • MiniDict: nyoh^入 yoe
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵nyioq-hhyoe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /n̠ʲioʔ¹¹ ɦyø²³/

Noun

肉圓

1. meatball
2. ba-wan (a Taiwanese snack food)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 肉丸 (“meatball”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		肉丸, 肉丸子, 肉球
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	肉丸
	Singapore	肉圓
Southwestern Mandarin	Guiyang	肉圓子
	Liuzhou	肉圓
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	肉圓兒
	Yangzhou	劗肉
Cantonese	Hong Kong	肉丸
	Dongguan	肉丸
Hakka	Yudu	肉丸子, 肉丸
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	肉丸
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	肉丸
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	肉丸
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	肉丸
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	肉丸
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	肉丸
Southern Min	Xiamen	肉圓仔
	Quanzhou	肉圓仔
	Zhangzhou	肉圓仔
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	肉丸
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	肉丸仔
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	肉丸
	Tainan	肉丸
	Tainan (Anping)	肉丸
	Manila (Hokkien)	肉圓
	Shantou	肉圓
	Jieyang	肉圓
	Haikou	肉丸
Wu	Shanghai	肉圓
	Shanghai (Chongming)	肉圓
	Danyang	肉圓
	Hangzhou	肉圓兒
	Ningbo	肉圓
	Wenzhou	肉圓

Descendants

• → English: ba-wan
• → Indonesian: bakwan

Further reading

• “肉圓”, 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.