散赤

Chinese

		adjourn; scatter; leisurely adjourn; scatter; leisurely; loosen; powdered medicine; to scatter; to come loose	red; scarlet; bare red; scarlet; bare; naked
trad. (散赤)		散	赤
simp. #(散赤)		散	赤
alternative forms		窮赤／穷赤 貧赤／贫赤

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sàn-chhiah

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sàn-chhiah
    • Tâi-lô: sàn-tshiah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sarnchiaq
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /san²¹⁻⁴¹ t͡sʰiaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /san¹¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰiaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /san²¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰiaʔ³²/

Adjective

散赤

1. (Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) poor

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 貧窮 (“poor; impoverished; poverty-striken”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		貧, 窮
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		窮, 貧窮, 窮困, 貧困, 赤貧, 貧乏, 貧苦, 貧寒, 苦寒
Mandarin	Taiwan	窮, 貧窮
	Yantai (Muping)	窮
	Luoyang	窮
	Wanrong	窮
	Xi'an	窮
	Yinchuan	窮
	Chengdu	苦寒
	Nanjing	窮
	Singapore	窮, 貧窮, 窮苦
Cantonese	Guangzhou	窮
	Hong Kong	窮
	Taishan	窮
Gan	Nanchang	窮
	Pingxiang	窮
Hakka	Meixian	窮
Jin	Taiyuan	窮
Northern Min	Jian'ou	窮無
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	窮
Southern Min	Xiamen	宋凶, 㾪赤, 窮㾪, 窮赤, 赤窮, 赤
	Quanzhou	宋凶, 窮赤, 赤窮, 赤
	Hui'an	窮赤
	Zhangzhou	宋凶, 散, 散赤, 赤
	Tainan	散, 散赤, 散食, 散凶, 窮赤, 窮散, 窮苦
	Raoping	磽
	Shantou	窮, 磽
	Jieyang	窮, 磽
	Leizhou	窮, 蒯
Wu	Shanghai	窮
	Suzhou	窮
	Danyang	窮
	Hangzhou	窮
	Jinhua	倒灶

Derived terms

• 散赤人

 

Further reading

• “Entry #8466”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.