荖花

Chinese

			flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern
trad. (荖花)		荖	花
simp. #(荖花)		荖	花
alternative forms		蓼花

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): láu-hoe

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: láu-hoe
    • Tâi-lô: láu-hue
    • Phofsit Daibuun: law'hoef
    • IPA (Philippines): /lau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hue³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lau⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hue⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hue⁴⁴/

Noun

荖花

1. (Hokkien, botany) betel pepper (Piper betle in the pepper family Piperaceae)
2. (Hokkien) sugarcoated hollow puffed rice confection

See also

• 米粩
• 麻粩 / 麻米粩仔

Further reading

• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “láu-hoe”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 296; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 296
• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “荖花”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC