呵欠

Chinese

		expel breath; my goodness; (phonetic particle)	deficient; owe; to lack deficient; owe; to lack; yawn
simp. and trad. (呵欠)		呵	欠

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hēqiàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜ ㄑㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ho¹ him³
• Gan (Wiktionary): ho¹ xien

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hēqiàn → hēqian (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜ ㄑㄧㄢˋ → ㄏㄜ ˙ㄑㄧㄢ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: heciån
    • Wade–Giles: ho¹-chʻien⁵
    • Yale: hē-chyan
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: he.chiann
    • Palladius: хэцянь (xɛcjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵¹/ → /xɤ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn²/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ho¹ him³
    • Yale: hō him
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ho¹ him³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ho¹ him³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔː⁵⁵ hiːm³³/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: ho¹ xien
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ho⁴² ɕiɛn²/

Noun

呵欠

1. yawn

Synonyms

• 哈欠 (hāqiàn)
• (dialectal Mandarin, Gan, Wu, dialectal Xiang) 呵獻／呵献
• (Hokkien) 哈唏
• (Wu) 呵晞

Derived terms

• 打呵欠 (dǎ hēqiàn)