掰腕子

Chinese

		to break with both hands	wrist
trad. (掰腕子)		掰	腕子
simp. #(掰腕子)		掰	腕子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bāi wànzi

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄞ ㄨㄢˋ ˙ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baai¹ wun² zi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bāi wànzi
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄞ ㄨㄢˋ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bai wànzi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: pai¹ wan⁴-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: bāi wàn-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bai wann.tzy
    • Palladius: бай ваньцзы (baj vanʹczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paɪ̯⁵⁵ wän⁵¹ d͡z̥z̩¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baai¹ wun² zi²
    • Yale: bāai wún jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baai¹ wun² dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: bai¹ wun² ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːi̯⁵⁵ wuːn³⁵ t͡siː³⁵/

Verb

掰⫽腕子 (verb-object)

1. (colloquial) to arm-wrestle

Synonyms

• (Hokkien) 拗手尾, 繃手尾／绷手尾, 遏手尾

Dialectal synonyms of 掰腕子 (“to arm-wrestle”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Mandarin	Beijing	掰腕子
	Taiwan	比腕力
	Tianjin	掰腕子
	Harbin	掰腕子
	Yantai (Muping)	掰腕子
	Lanzhou	扳把
	Wuhan	比手勁
	Xuzhou	掰手腕兒, 握手腕兒, 握手勁兒, 扳手腕兒
	Yangzhou	拗手勁, 拗膀勁
Cantonese	Guangzhou	拗手瓜, 拗手臂瓜
	Hong Kong	拗手瓜
	Dongguan	拗手瓜
Gan	Lichuan	扳手勁
Hakka	Xingning	拗手哩
Northern Min	Jian'ou	扳手勁
Southern Min	Zhangzhou	拗手
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	遏手把
	Tainan	遏手把, 扳手把
	Penghu (Xiyu)	遏手把
	Leizhou	勾手骨, 過橋
	Haikou	拗手交
Wu	Shanghai	拗手勁
	Shanghai (Songjiang)	扳手勁
	Suzhou	拗手勁
	Danyang	較手勁
	Ningbo	拗手勁
	Wenzhou	扳手
Xiang	Loudi	扳腕子