佇咧
Chinese
wait; look towards; turn one's back on | draw back corners of mouth; child's cry | ||
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trad. (佇咧) | 佇 | 咧 | |
simp. (伫咧) | 伫 | 咧 | |
alternative forms |
Etymology
From 佇 (tī, tǐr, “at”) + 塊/块 (tè, tèr, “place”); written as 在處 in Tale of the Lychee Mirror (Lien, 2015). Compare Cantonese 喺度 (hai2 dou6).
Pronunciation
Adverb
佇咧
- (Southern Min) in the process of; currently
- 我佇咧食飯。 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
- Góa tī-leh chia̍h-pn̄g. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
- I'm eating.
我伫咧食饭。 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 正在 (“in the process of; currently”) [map]
Variety | Location | Words |
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Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 正在, 刻正 | |
Mandarin | Beijing | 正在, 在 |
Taiwan | 正在, 在 | |
Guilin | 在 | |
Malaysia | 正在, 在 | |
Singapore | 正在, 在 | |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | 喺度, 喺處, 響度, 響處 |
Hong Kong | 喺度, 喺處, 響度, 響處 | |
Singapore (Guangfu) | 喺度 | |
Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 當, 在該, 當在 |
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 當, 在該 | |
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 當, 在該 | |
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 當, 在該 | |
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 當, 在該 | |
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 正在, 在遐 | |
Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 著𡅏, 𡅏 |
Fuqing | 著𡅏 | |
Singapore (Fuqing) | 著𡅏 | |
Southern Min | Xiamen | 佇咧, 咧, 當咧, 拄咧, 拄佇咧 |
Quanzhou | 佇咧, 咧, 當咧, 拄咧, 拄佇咧 | |
Zhangzhou | 咧, 當咧, 拄咧, 當時 | |
Tainan | 佇咧, 咧, 當咧 | |
Penang (Hokkien) | 佇 | |
Singapore (Hokkien) | 佇, 佇咧 | |
Manila (Hokkien) | 佇咧, 咧 | |
Shantou | 在 | |
Shantou (Chaoyang) | 在 | |
Singapore (Teochew) | 在 | |
Wu | Shanghai | 辣, 辣辣, 辣海 |
Ningbo | 來, 來的, 來該, 來當, 來東, 來勒 | |
Wenzhou | 是, 是搭 |
Verb
佇咧
- (Southern Min) to exist, to be (in a place)
- 伊有佇咧無? [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
- I ū tī-leh bô? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
- Is she/he here?
伊有伫咧无? [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]
References
- “Entry #2909”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.
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