脷尖

Chinese

			point (of needle); sharp; shrewd point (of needle); sharp; shrewd; pointed
trad. (脷尖)		脷	尖
simp. #(脷尖)		脷	尖

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁶ zim¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lei⁶ zim¹
    • Yale: leih jīm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁶ dzim¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: léi⁶ jim¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lei̯²² t͡siːm⁵⁵/

Noun

脷尖

1. (Cantonese) tip of a tongue

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 舌尖 (“tip of the tongue”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		舌尖
Mandarin	Taiwan	舌尖
	Jinan	舌頭尖
	Luoyang	舌頭尖兒
	Ürümqi	舌頭尖尖子
	Guiyang	舌尖
	Nanjing	舌尖兒, 舌尖子
	Nantong	舌頭尖兒
Cantonese	Guangzhou	脷尖
	Hong Kong	脷尖
	Taishan	脷嘴, 脷咮
Hakka	Meixian	舌尖
	Yongding (Xiayang)	舌尖, 舌尾
	Yudu	舌尖
Northern Min	Jian'ou	舌頭
	Songxi	舌頭
	Zhenghe	舌尾
	Jianyang	舌頭
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	喙舌尾
Southern Min	Xiamen	舌尾
	Quanzhou	舌尾
	Zhangzhou	舌尾
	Zhangping	舌尾
	Jieyang	舌尾
	Leizhou	舌尾
Puxian Min	Putian	喙舌尾, 脷尖
	Xianyou	喙舌尾
Wu	Shanghai (Chongming)	舌頭尖年
	Danyang	舌頭尖尖
	Wenzhou	口舌頭