打耳光

Chinese

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen	box on the ears; slap in the face; blow
trad. (打耳光)		打	耳光
simp. #(打耳光)		打	耳光

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎ ěrguāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˇ ㄦˇ ㄍㄨㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² ji⁵ gwong¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎ ěrguāng [Phonetic: dáěrguāng]
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄦˇ ㄍㄨㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎ ěrguang
    • Wade–Giles: ta³ êrh³-kuang¹
    • Yale: dǎ ěr-gwāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daa eelguang
    • Palladius: да эргуан (da erguan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daa² ji⁵ gwong¹
    • Yale: dá yíh gwōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daa² ji⁵ gwong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: da² yi⁵ guong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ jiː¹³ kʷɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Verb

打⫽耳光 (verb-object)

1. to box someone's ears; to slap someone on the face

Synonyms

• 兜巴星 (dau¹ baa¹ sing¹) (Cantonese)
• 冚 (kam2) (Cantonese)
• 戳鏡／戳镜 (⁷tshoq-cin) (Wu, dated)
• 打嘴角 (Hakka)
• 打耳刮
• 打耳刮子
• 批頰／批颊
• 拍喙䫌／拍喙𱂮 (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 掌嘴 (zhǎngzuǐ)
• 掌摑／掌掴 (zhǎngguāi)
• 揌喙䫌／揌喙𱂮 (Min Nan)
• 搧喙䫌／搧喙𱂮 (Quanzhou Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien, Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 搏頰／搏颊 (literary)
• 摑耳光／掴耳光 (guāi'érguāng)
• 擗喙䫌／擗喙𱂮 (Tainan Hokkien)
• 筰 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 打耳光 (“to box someone's ears; to slap someone on the face”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		打耳光, 掌嘴, 打嘴巴
Mandarin	Nanjing	打耳括子
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	打嘴角
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	打嘴角, 噼嘴角
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	打嘴角
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	打嘴角
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	打嘴角
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	搧嘴䫌
Southern Min	Xiamen	搧喙䫌, 抉喙䫌, 拍喙䫌
	Quanzhou	搧喙䫌, 抉喙䫌
	Zhangzhou	搧喙䫌, 抉喙䫌
	Tainan	擗喙䫌, 搧喙䫌 GT
Wu	Hangzhou	喫耳光
	Ningbo	摑耳光, 搧巴掌