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蟲蟻
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Chinese
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): cung4 ngai5
- Eastern Min (BUC): tè̤ng-ngiê
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): tang2 hyor5 / tang2 hya5
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thâng-hiā / thâng-hiǎ
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: chóngyǐ
- Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄥˊ ㄧˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: chóngyǐ
- Wade–Giles: chʻung2-i3
- Yale: chúng-yǐ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chorngyii
- Palladius: чунъи (čunʺi)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʊŋ³⁵ i²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)+
- Jyutping: cung4 ngai5
- Yale: chùhng ngáih
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsung4 ngai5
- Guangdong Romanization: cung4 ngei5
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰʊŋ²¹ ŋɐi̯¹³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)+
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: tè̤ng-ngiê
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰøyŋ⁵³⁻²¹ ŋiɛ²⁴²/
- (Fuzhou)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: tang2 hyor5 [Phonetic: tang4 ngyor5]
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: táng-hiō̤
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰaŋ¹³⁻⁴² (h-)ŋyɒ¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: tang2 hya5 [Phonetic: tang4 ngya5]
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰaŋ²⁴⁻⁴² (h-)ŋya²¹/
- (Putian)
- Southern Min
Noun
蟲蟻
- insects; bugs
- 1912, Gū-sing-io̤h Cé̤ng-cṳ, Hing-hua̍ Báⁿ-uā (舊新約全書，興化平話) [The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments in the Hinghwa Dialect, Romanized], Hinghwa City: American Bible Society, Cho̤̍ng-sa̤̍-gi̍ (創世記) [Genesis] 1:24-25:
- Siō̤ng-Da̤̍ gô̤ng, Dā̤ da̤u̍h muâ saⁿ ua̍h ē mo̍ih-nō̤, deo bíng i ē cê̤ng-lūi; táu-saⁿ, táng-hiō̤, iâ-siu̍, deo bíng i ē cê̤ng-lūi: cuh ū ah-na. Siō̤ng-Da̤̍ cuh ceo̍ iâ-siu̍, deo bíng i ē cê̤ng-lūi, táu-saⁿ deo bíng i ē cê̤ng-lūi, dā̤ sā̤uⁿ táng-hiō̤, deo bíng i ē cê̤ng-lūi: Siō̤ng-Da̤̍ kua̍ⁿ ah-na sī heô.
- 上帝講，水著滿生活其物乇，都憑伊其種類；頭牲，蟲蟻，野獸，著憑伊其種類：就有阿若。上帝就造野獸，都憑伊其種類，頭牲都憑伊其種類，地上蟲蟻，都憑伊其種類：上帝看阿若是好。
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. (KJV)
- 上帝講，水著滿生活其物乇，都憑伊其種類；頭牲，蟲蟻，野獸，著憑伊其種類：就有阿若。上帝就造野獸，都憑伊其種類，頭牲都憑伊其種類，地上蟲蟻，都憑伊其種類：上帝看阿若是好。
- (by extension) small creatures
Synonyms
References
- 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “蟲蟻”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
- 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “虫蚁”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 523.
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