矮冬瓜

Chinese

		short (not tall)	winter melon; ash gourd; wax gourd winter melon; ash gourd; wax gourd; tallow gourd
trad. (矮冬瓜)		矮	冬瓜
simp. ^#(矮冬瓜)		矮	冬瓜

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ǎidōngguā

(Zhuyin): ㄞˇ ㄉㄨㄥㄍㄨㄚ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ǎidōngguā
  - Zhuyin: ㄞˇ ㄉㄨㄥㄍㄨㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ǎidonggua
  - Wade–Giles: ai³-tung¹-kua¹
  - Yale: ǎi-dūng-gwā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: aedonggua
  - Palladius: айдунгуа (ajdungua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʊŋ⁵⁵ ku̯ä⁵⁵/

Noun

矮冬瓜

(informal) shortie, midget

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 矮子 (“short person”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		矮子
Mandarin	Beijing	矬子, 矬弝子, 矬個兒, 矬地丁兒, 矬地丁, 矬地崩子, 矬地崩, 矬地炮
	Taiwan	矮子, 矮冬瓜
	Harbin	矬子, 矬巴子, 小矬子, 小矬巴子
	Yantai (Muping)	矬子
	Jinan	矬子
	Luoyang	矬子漢兒
	Xi'an	矬子
	Yinchuan	矬子
	Xining	矬蛋蛋
	Ürümqi	矬子
	Wuhan	矮𧰵𧰵, 矮短鬼
	Liuzhou	矮底沰
	Xuzhou	矬不當兒
	Yangzhou	矮子
	Nanjing	矮個子, 矮子棒兒
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	矬漢, 矬子
	Masanchin (Shaanxi Dungan)	矬漢, 矬人
Cantonese	Guangzhou	矮仔, 矮仔嘜
	Hong Kong	矮仔
	Taishan	矮仔
	Kaiping (Chikan)	矮仔
	Dongguan	矮仔
Gan	Nanchang	矮子, 矮子鬼
	Lichuan	矮子
	Pingxiang	矮子
Hakka	Meixian	矮仔, 矮牯仔
	Yudu	矮牯子
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	矮古董
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	矮古董, 矮古唧
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	矮古董
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	矮古董
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	矮古董
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	矮牯
Huizhou	Jixi	矮子, 矮八冬瓜, 矮八鬼
Jin	Xinzhou	矮子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	矮仔, 矮伯, 矮伯仔
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	矮儂, 矮囝, 矮八, 矮八鬼
Southern Min	Xiamen	矮仔, 矮仔儂長, 矮仔冬瓜, 矮奴
	Quanzhou	矮仔, 矮奴
	Zhangzhou	矮仔, 矮仔儂長, 矮仔冬瓜, 矮仔籠床
	Tainan	矮仔冬瓜, 矮仔杜鱉, 矮仔財
	Shantou	矮囝
	Jieyang	矮囝
	Leizhou	妃矮
	Haikou	矮囝
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	矮佬, 矮崽
Wu	Shanghai	矮子, 短拖
	Shanghai (Chongming)	矮子
	Suzhou	矮子
	Danyang	矮子, 矮冬瓜
	Hangzhou	矮子, 矮冬瓜
	Wenzhou	矮儂兒, 矮兒, 矮頹
	Jinhua	矮子, 矮雀蒲兒
	Jinhua (Tangxi)	矮子鬼兒, 矮膊槌
Xiang	Loudi	矮子, 矮子牯

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