文蛤

Chinese

		language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle	clam
simp. and trad. (文蛤)		文	蛤

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wéngé

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˊ ㄍㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴ gap³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wéngé
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˊ ㄍㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wúngé
    • Wade–Giles: wên²-ko²
    • Yale: wén-gé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wenger
    • Palladius: вэньгэ (vɛnʹgɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən³⁵ kɤ³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: man⁴ gap³
    • Yale: màhn gap
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴ gap⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: men⁴ geb³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹ kɐp̚³/

Noun

文蛤

1. clam

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 蛤蜊 (“clam”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		蛤蜊
Mandarin	Beijing	蛤蜊
	Taiwan	蛤蜊
	Jinan	蛤拉
	Luoyang	海蚌兒
	Ürümqi	蚌殼子
	Yangzhou	蛤蜊
	Malaysia	啦啦
	Singapore	啦啦
Cantonese	Guangzhou	蜆
	Hong Kong	蜆
	Dongguan	蛤蜊
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	啦啦
Hakka	Meixian	蜆仔, 順𧋓仔
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	蜆仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	蜆仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	蜆仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	蜆
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	蜆仔, 蜆
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	蜆子
Jin	Taiyuan	海鉢鉢
Northern Min	Jian'ou	蛤蜊
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	蛤蜊
Southern Min	Xiamen	蚶, 蜊仔, 沙蜊, 蟯
	Quanzhou	蚶, 沙蜊, 蟯
	Zhangzhou	蚶, 蜊仔, 蟯
	Tainan	蚶仔, 蜊仔, 蟯仔, 粉蟯
	Penang (Hokkien)	蜊蜊
	Singapore (Hokkien)	蚶, 蜊蜊, 沙蜊
	Manila (Hokkien)	蚶
Wu	Shanghai	蛤蜊
	Shanghai (Chongming)	麻蚶子
	Suzhou	阿蜊
	Hangzhou	蛤蜊
	Ningbo	蛤皮, 圓蛤
	Wenzhou	蚶兒
Xiang	Changsha	湖殼子