肘子

Chinese

		elbow; pork shoulder	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
trad. (肘子)		肘	子
simp. #(肘子)		肘	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): zhǒuzi

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄡˇ ˙ㄗ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): zou³ zi^3-2

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zau² zi²
• Jin (Wiktionary): zou² zeh
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵tseu-tsy
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): zhou³ zr

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhǒuzi
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄡˇ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhǒuzi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: chou³-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: jǒu-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: joou.tzy
    • Palladius: чжоуцзы (čžouczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴ d͡z̥z̩⁴/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: zou³ zi^3-2
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: zouz
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡səu⁵³ t͡sz̩⁵³⁻²¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zau² zi²
    • Yale: jáu jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau² dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeo² ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯³⁵ t͡siː³⁵/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: zou² zeh
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /t͡səu⁵³ t͡səʔ¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁵tseu-tsy
    • MiniDict: tseu^去 tsy
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tseu-tsr
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sɤ³³ t͡sz̩⁴⁴/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: zhou³ zr
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (old-style): /ʈ͡ʂəu̯⁴¹ t͡sz̩³/
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (new-style): /t͡səu̯⁴¹ t͡sz̩³/

Noun

肘子

1. (colloquial, anatomy) elbow
2. upper part of a leg of pork

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 胳膊肘 (“elbow”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		肘
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		胳膊肘
Mandarin	Beijing	胳膊肘兒, 胳臂肘兒
	Taiwan	手肘
	Harbin	胳膊肘子, 胳膊肘兒
	Yantai (Muping)	胳膊肘兒, 拐肘, 胳膊彎兒
	Jinan	胳膊肘, 胳膊肘兒, 胳膊肘子
	Luoyang	胳膊肘兒
	Wanrong	胳肘子
	Xi'an	胳肘子
	Yinchuan	胳肘子
	Lanzhou	胳肘子
	Xining	胳杵子
	Ürümqi	胳肘子
	Wuhan	倒拐, 倒拐頭, 拐子
	Chengdu	倒拐子, 手倒拐
	Guiyang	手道拐
	Kunming	手拐子
	Liuzhou	手拐, 手膝蓋
	Xuzhou	胳膊肘兒, 胳膊肘子
	Yangzhou	膀節彎子, 膀彎子, 胳膊肘子
	Nanjing	胳膀垂兒, 胳膀肘兒
	Hefei	胳膊肘
	Nantong	手彎子, 手拐子
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	胳肘子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	手㬹
	Hong Kong	手㬹
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	手㬹
	Taishan	手鑿
	Dongguan	手㬹
	Yangjiang	手鑿
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	手㬹
Gan	Nanchang	斗㬹
	Lichuan	斗㬹公
	Pingxiang	掌肘
Hakka	Meixian	手㬹
	Xingning	手㬹
	Huidong (Daling)	手㬹
	Shaoguan (Qujiang)	手㬹
	Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang)	手㬹
	Changting	手㬹
	Wuping	手㬹角頭
	Wuping (Pingyu)	手㬹
	Liancheng	手㬹
	Ninghua	手㬹
	Yudu	手㬹
	Ruijin	手㬹
	Shicheng	手㬹
	Shangyou (Shexi)	手㬹
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	手㬹
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	手㬹
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	手㬹
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	手㬹
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	手㬹
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	手㬹
	Hong Kong	手㬹
	Senai (Huiyang)	手㬹角
Huizhou	Jixi	手肘尖
	Shexian	肘腮頭
Jin	Taiyuan	胳扭子, 胳肘子, 胳肘, 胳膊肘
	Xinzhou	胳扭
Northern Min	Jian'ou	手角䟓
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	手𩨑
	Fuqing	手臂𩨑
Southern Min	Xiamen	手後臼, 手後蹬, 手後曲, 手曲
	Quanzhou	手後捅
	Jinjiang	手後捅
	Zhangzhou	手後曲, 手曲, 手後臼
	Taipei	手後曲
	Kaohsiung	手後蹬
	Yilan	手後彎
	Changhua (Lukang)	手後曲
	Taichung	手後曲
	Taichung (Wuqi)	手後曲
	Tainan	手曲
	Taitung	手後曲
	Hsinchu	手後曲
	Penghu (Magong)	手後曲
	Chaozhou	手後捅
	Shantou	手後捅
	Leizhou	手趺
	Haikou	手趺
Puxian Min	Putian	手彎
	Xianyou	手彎
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	米臂尖
Wu	Shanghai	臂撐子
	Shanghai (Chongming)	臂杖子
	Suzhou	臂膊撐子, 臂膊撐骨
	Danyang	手臂彎彎
	Hangzhou	手拄撐頭
	Ningbo	手㬹子頭
	Wenzhou	手㬹頭, 手㬹根頭
	Jinhua	手臂囊頭
Xiang	Changsha	倒肘, 手拐子, 倒拐子, 倒拐
	Shuangfeng	手杵子

• (upper part of a leg of pork): 圓蹄／圆蹄 (yuántí), 蹄膀 (tíbǎng), (Hokkien) 腿庫／腿库