還嘴

Chinese

		pay back; return; also pay back; return; also; in addition; more; still; else; yet; (not) yet	mouth
trad. (還嘴)		還	嘴
simp. (还嘴)		还	嘴

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huánzuǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˊ ㄗㄨㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waan⁴ zeoi²
• Gan (Wiktionary): uan⁴ 'zui³
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶we-tsy; ⁶we ⁵tsy

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huánzuǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˊ ㄗㄨㄟˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huánzuěi
    • Wade–Giles: huan²-tsui³
    • Yale: hwán-dzwěi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwantzoei
    • Palladius: хуаньцзуй (xuanʹczuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯än³⁵ t͡su̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waan⁴ zeoi²
    • Yale: wàahn jéui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waan⁴ dzoey²
    • Guangdong Romanization: wan⁴ zêu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːn²¹ t͡sɵy̯³⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: uan⁴ 'zui³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /uan³⁵ ˈt͡sui²¹³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶we-tsy; ⁶we ⁵tsy
    • MiniDict: we^去 tsy; we^去 tsy^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhue-tsr; ³hhue ²tsr
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦue²² t͡sz̩⁴⁴/, /ɦue³³  t͡sz̩³⁴/

Verb

還嘴

1. to talk back; to answer back; to retort

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 頂嘴 (“to answer back; to talk back”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		頂嘴, 還嘴, 還口, 回嘴
Mandarin	Beijing	頂嘴, 犟嘴
	Taiwan	頂嘴
	Tianjin	頂嘴
	Tangshan	頂嘴
	Cangzhou	頂嘴
	Baoding	頂嘴
	Shijiazhuang	吵嘴
	Chifeng	頂嘴, 爭嘴
	Hulunbuir (Hailar)	頂嘴
	Harbin	頂嘴
	Shenyang	頂嘴
	Yantai (Muping)	頂嘴, 犟嘴
	Qingdao	頂嘴
	Jinan	頂嘴, 犟嘴
	Luoyang	犟嘴, 對嘴, 對嘴貼舌
	Wanrong	犟嘴
	Zhengzhou	頂嘴
	Xi'an	頂嘴, 犟嘴
	Yinchuan	頂嘴
	Lanzhou	頂嘴
	Xining	頂嘴, 犟嘴
	Ürümqi	頂嘴
	Wuhan	頂嘴
	Chengdu	頂嘴, 對嘴
	Chongqing	頂嘴
	Guiyang	頂嘴, 抵嘴
	Kunming	爭嘴
	Guilin	頂嘴
	Liuzhou	頂嘴, 犟嘴
	Xuzhou	頂嘴, 犟嘴, 反犟, 犟
	Yangzhou	頂嘴, 犟嘴, 犟
	Nanjing	頂嘴
	Hefei	頂嘴
	Nantong	頂嘴
	Malaysia	頂嘴
	Singapore	頂嘴
Cantonese	Guangzhou	頂頸, 駁嘴, 應嘴, 頂嘴, 駁嘴駁舌
	Hong Kong	頂頸, 駁嘴, 駁嘴駁舌
	Dongguan	頂頸, 駁嘴, 頂嘴, 頂喉頂鼻
Gan	Nanchang	還嘴
Hakka	Meixian	撐嘴
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	應嘴, 應話, 應嘴應鼻
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	應嘴, 應話, 應嘴應鼻
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	應嘴, 應話, 應嘴應鼻
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	應嘴, 應話, 應嘴應鼻
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	應嘴, 應話, 應嘴應鼻
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	應嘴應鼻, 應事
Huizhou	Jixi	頂嘴, 犟嘴
	Shexian	頂嘴
Jin	Taiyuan	頂嘴, 犟嘴
	Xinzhou	頂嘴, 犟嘴
	Linhe	頂嘴
	Jining	頂嘴
	Hohhot	頂嘴
	Zhangjiakou	頂嘴
	Handan	頂嘴
Northern Min	Jian'ou	應喙
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	應喙
Southern Min	Xiamen	拄喙, 應喙應舌, 話拄, 桀話
	Quanzhou	拄喙, 應喙應舌, 桀話
	Zhangzhou	拄喙, 應喙應舌, 桀話
	Tainan	應喙 GT, 應話 GT, 應舌 GT, 應喙應舌 GT, 揬 GT
	Manila (Hokkien)	應喙, 應話, 應喙應舌
	Shantou	駁喙
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	頂喙
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	頂嘴, 頂喉, 頂頸, 頂口
Wu	Shanghai	還嘴, 還嘴還舌, 頂嘴
	Danyang	頂嘴
	Hangzhou	頂嘴
	Wenzhou	頂嘴, 應嘴
Xiang	Changsha	頂嘴, 翻嘴, 還價
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)