呔

呔 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口大戈 (RKI) or X口大戈 (XRKI), four-corner 6403₀, composition ⿰口太)

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 181, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 587, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5454

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 口 (“mouth; speech”) + phonetic 太 (OC *tʰaːds).

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呔

1. An exclamation to get attention.

   • 呔！住口！你這勢利的狗！ [MSC, trad.]
     呔！住口！你这势利的狗！ [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1925, Lu Xun, “The Dog's Retort”, in Wild Grass (English translation by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang)

     Dāi! Zhùkǒu! Nǐ zhè shìlì de gǒu! [Pinyin]

     Bah! Shut up! Lick-spittle cur!

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呔

1. (dialectal) having a foreign accent

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) Borrowed from English tie.

呔

1. (Cantonese) tie; necktie (Classifier: 條／条 c)

   打呔 [Cantonese]  ―  daa² taai¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to tie a tie/to be wearing a tie

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Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) Borrowed from English tyre.

呔

1. (Cantonese) tyre (Classifier: 條／条 c)

• (Mandarin) 胎 (tāi)

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呔

1. (Min Nan, chiefly Zhangzhou accents) how; why (Only used in 呔會／呔会 (“how could it be...?”))

   呔會按呢？／呔会按呢？ [Taiwanese Hokkien]  ―  Thài ē án-ne? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  How could it be?

• 哪

• “Entry #14041”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.