Chinese edit

be; yes; this who
trad. (是誰)
simp. (是谁)

Etymology edit

Probably from the vernacular readings of the two characters with assimilation. Zhangzhou chī-choa̍h is a contraction of 是誰仔是谁仔 (chī-chūi-á).

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Pronoun edit

是誰

  1. (Hokkien, chiefly Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Malaysian and Singapore Hokkien, dated in Taiwanese Hokkien) who; whom

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