舌尖

Chinese

		tongue	point (of needle); sharp; shrewd point (of needle); sharp; shrewd; pointed
trad. (舌尖)		舌	尖
simp. #(舌尖)		舌	尖

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shéjiān

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄜˊ ㄐㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sit⁶ zim¹, sit³ zim¹
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): sad⁶ jiam¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shéjiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄜˊ ㄐㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shéjian
    • Wade–Giles: shê²-chien¹
    • Yale: shé-jyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sherjian
    • Palladius: шэцзянь (šɛczjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤ³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shéjiānr
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄜˊ ㄐㄧㄢㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shéjianr
    • Wade–Giles: shê²-chien¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: shé-jyānr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sherjial
    • Palladius: шэцзяньр (šɛczjanʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤ³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑɻ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sit⁶ zim¹, sit³ zim¹
    • Yale: siht jīm, sit jīm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sit⁹ dzim¹, sit⁸ dzim¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xid⁶ jim¹, xid³ jim¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːt̚² t͡siːm⁵⁵/, /siːt̚³ t͡siːm⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: sad⁶ jiam¹
    • Sinological IPA: /sat̚⁵ t͡siam⁴⁴/

Noun

舌尖

1. tip of a tongue

   《舌尖上的中國》 [MSC, trad.]
   《舌尖上的中国》 [MSC, simp.]

   “Shéjiān shàng de Zhōngguó” [Pinyin]

   A Bite of China (TV series, lit. “China on the tongue tip”)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 舌尖 (“tip of the tongue”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		舌尖
Mandarin	Taiwan	舌尖
	Jinan	舌頭尖
	Luoyang	舌頭尖兒
	Ürümqi	舌頭尖尖子
	Guiyang	舌尖
	Nanjing	舌尖兒, 舌尖子
	Nantong	舌頭尖兒
Cantonese	Guangzhou	脷尖
	Hong Kong	脷尖
	Taishan	脷嘴, 脷咮
Hakka	Meixian	舌尖
	Yongding (Xiayang)	舌尖, 舌尾
	Yudu	舌尖
Northern Min	Jian'ou	舌頭
	Songxi	舌頭
	Zhenghe	舌尾
	Jianyang	舌頭
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	喙舌尾
Southern Min	Xiamen	舌尾
	Quanzhou	舌尾
	Zhangzhou	舌尾
	Zhangping	舌尾
	Jieyang	舌尾
	Leizhou	舌尾
Puxian Min	Putian	喙舌尾, 脷尖
	Xianyou	喙舌尾
Wu	Shanghai (Chongming)	舌頭尖年
	Danyang	舌頭尖尖
	Wenzhou	口舌頭

Derived terms

• 舌尖中音
• 舌尖前音 (shéjiānqiányīn)
• 舌尖後音／舌尖后音
• 舌尖音 (shéjiānyīn)

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
舌	尖
ぜつ > ぜっ Grade: 6	せん Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ぜっせん [zèsséń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [d͡ze̞sːẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

舌(ぜっ)尖(せん) • (zessen) 

1. tip of the tongue

   Synonyms: 舌先 (shitasaki), 舌端 (zettan), 舌頭 (zettō)

   • 1937, 岡本かの子, 金魚撩乱‎^[1], 青空文庫:

     […] 最後(さいご)の一(ひと)ひらだけは上顎(うわあご)の奥(おく)に貼(は)りついて顎裏(あごうら)のぴよぴよする柔(やわらか)いところと一重(ひとえ)になってしまって、舌尖(ぜっせん)で扱(しご)いても指先(ゆびさ)きを突(つ)き込(こ)んでも除(のぞ)かれなかった。

     […] saigo no hitohira dake wa uwaago no oku ni haritsuite agoura no piyopiyo suru yawarakai tokoro to hitoe ni natte shimatte, zessen de shigoite mo yubisaki o tsukikonde mo nozokarenakatta.

     […] just one last petal got stuck in the back of his upper jaw, becoming one with the flappy, soft part of the palate, and he could not remove it whether he stroked it with the tip of his tongue or put his finger in his mouth.

2. manner of speaking

   Synonyms: 舌先 (shitasaki), 舌端 (zettan), 舌頭 (zettō), 口先 (kuchisaki), 弁舌 (benzetsu)

   • 1895, 鄭隈生, “取りどころなし”, in 早稻田文學, number 102, 早稻田文學社, page 81, 第一書房:

     吾人(ごじん)の正太夫(しやうだいふ)に多(た)とする所(ところ)は […] 其(そ)の舌尖(ぜつせん)のさすがに敵者(てきしや)の灸所(きうしよ)を刺(さ)し彼(か)れをして多(おほ)く辨解(べんかい)する能(あた)はざらしむ所(ところ)にあり

     Gojin no Shōdayū ni ta to suru tokoro wa […] sono zessen no sasuga ni tekisha no kyūsho o sashi kare o shite ōku benkai suru atawazarashimu tokoro ni ari

     What I appreciate about Shōdayū is […] that his silver tongue hits his adversary where it hurts and leaves him unable to defend himself much at all.

Derived terms

• 舌尖音(ぜっせんおん) (zessen'on)