舵工

Chinese

		helm; rudder	work; worker; skill work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labour
trad. (舵工)		舵	工
simp. ^#(舵工)		舵	工
alternative forms		舵公舵舡𦨮公

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): duògōng

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄛˋ ㄍㄨㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): to⁴ gung¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tāi-kong / tǎi-kong

(Teochew, Peng'im): dai⁶ gong¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: duògōng
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄛˋ ㄍㄨㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: duògong
  - Wade–Giles: to⁴-kung¹
  - Yale: dwò-gūng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duohgong
  - Palladius: догун (dogun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯ɔ⁵¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: to⁴ gung¹
  - Yale: tòh gūng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: to⁴ gung¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: to⁴ gung¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔː²¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tāi-kong
  - Tâi-lô: tāi-kong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: daixkofng
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tai³³⁻²¹ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tai³³⁻¹¹ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tai²²⁻²¹ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tǎi-kong
  - Tâi-lô: tǎi-kong
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tai²² kɔŋ³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: dai⁶ gong¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tăi kong
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tai³⁵⁻¹¹ koŋ³³/

Noun

舵工

steersman
- 《漳州府漳浦縣小船戶金合興即出海王連裕等為船遇遭風擊破情慘哀懇恩准給發路照並賜川資俾得回家事》
  舵舡楊爐／舵舡杨炉 [Classical Chinese] ― duògōng Yáng Lú [Pinyin] ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- 1946 June 24, 南洋商報 [Nanyang Siang Pau], page 2:
  
  四五灣島被扣米船　舵舡被拘押待控究 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
  四五湾岛被扣米船　舵舡被拘押待控究 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]
  sì wǔ wāndǎo bèi kòu mǐchuán, duògōng bèi jūyā dài kòngjiū [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 船夫 (“boatman; helmsman”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		船夫, 艄公, 船家, 船戶, 舵手, 舟子, 水手, 梢人
Cantonese	Guangzhou	撐船公, 船家
Hakka	Meixian	船家佬
Northern Min	Jian'ou	船艄工
Southern Min	Xiamen	船舵, 船舵公, 舵工 dated
	Quanzhou	船舵, 船舵公, 渡伯, 舵工 dated
	Zhangzhou	船舵, 船舵公, 渡伯, 舵工 dated
	Shantou	捍舵, 撐船人
Xiang	Changsha	駕船的

Descendants

→ Khmer: តៃកុង (tay kong)
→ Malay: tekong
- Indonesian: tekong
→ Tagalog: taykong
→ Thai: ไต้ก๋ง (dtâi-gǒng)

References

“Entry #7786”, 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.
小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “舵工”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎ (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
Lim Hiong Seng (1886) “Nautical”, in Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press, page 105

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