乾兒子

See also: 干儿子

Chinese

		dry; clean; male dry; clean; male; strong; one of the Eight Trigrams; surname	son; man
trad. (乾兒子)		乾	兒子
simp. (干儿子)		干	儿子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gān'érzi

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄢ ㄦˊ ˙ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gon¹ ji⁴ zi²
• Jin (Wiktionary): gan¹ er¹ zeh

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gān'érzi
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄢ ㄦˊ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gan-érzi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: kan¹-êrh²-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: gān-ér-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ganerl.tzy
    • Palladius: ганьэрцзы (ganʹerczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kän⁵⁵ ˀɤɻ³⁵ d͡z̥z̩³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gon¹ ji⁴ zi²
    • Yale: gōn yìh jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gon¹ ji⁴ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gon¹ yi⁴ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːn⁵⁵ jiː²¹ t͡siː³⁵/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: gan¹ er¹ zeh
    • Sinological IPA (old-style, no sandhi): /kæ̃¹¹ əɻ¹¹ t͡səʔ²/

Noun

乾兒子

1. godson; (nominally) adopted son

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 乾兒子 (“godson; (nominally) adopted son”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		義子, 誼子
Mandarin	Beijing	乾兒子
	Taiwan	乾兒子
	Harbin	乾兒子
	Jinan	乾兒
	Xi'an	乾兒
	Yinchuan	乾兒子
	Lanzhou	乾兒子
	Liuzhou	乾崽
	Singapore	乾兒子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	契仔
	Hong Kong	契仔, 乾仔
	Foshan	契仔
	Foshan (Shunde)	契仔
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	契仔
	Zhuhai (Doumen, Shangheng Tanka)	契仔
	Taishan	契仔
	Kaiping (Chikan)	契仔
	Dongguan	契仔
	Yangjiang	契仔
Gan	Lichuan	契崽
Hakka	Meixian	相認賴仔
	Yudu	契子, 義子
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	契子
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	義子
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	契子
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	契子
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	契子
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	契子
Jin	Taiyuan	乾兒子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	老囝
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	義囝
Southern Min	Xiamen	契囝
	Quanzhou	契囝
	Jinjiang	契囝
	Zhangzhou	契囝
	Taipei	契囝
	Kaohsiung	契囝
	Penang (Hokkien)	契囝
	Manila (Hokkien)	契囝
	Shantou	契囝
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	契崽
Wu	Shanghai	過房兒子, 義子 dated
	Shanghai (Chongming)	寄拜兒子
	Hangzhou	乾兒子
	Ningbo	繼拜兒子