玉米花

Chinese

		corn; maize	flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern
trad. (玉米花)		玉米	花
simp. #(玉米花)		玉米	花

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yùmǐhuā

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ ㄇㄧˇ ㄏㄨㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): juk⁶ mai⁵ faa¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yùmǐhuā
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ ㄇㄧˇ ㄏㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yùmǐhua
    • Wade–Giles: yü⁴-mi³-hua¹
    • Yale: yù-mǐ-hwā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuhmiihua
    • Palladius: юймихуа (jujmixua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹ mi²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yùmǐhuār
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ ㄇㄧˇ ㄏㄨㄚㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yùmǐhuar
    • Wade–Giles: yü⁴-mi³-hua¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: yù-mǐ-hwār
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuhmiihual
    • Palladius: юймихуар (jujmixuar)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹ mi²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ɑɻ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: juk⁶ mai⁵ faa¹
    • Yale: yuhk máih fā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁹ mai⁵ faa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yug⁶ mei⁵ fa¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚² mɐi̯¹³ faː⁵⁵/

Noun

玉米花

1. popcorn (a snack food made from corn kernels popped by dry heating)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 玉米花 (“popcorn”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		爆米花, 玉米花
Mandarin	Taiwan	爆米花
	Harbin	包米花兒
	Xuzhou	炸米花兒, 炸花兒, 爆米花兒
Cantonese	Hong Kong	爆穀
Jin	Taiyuan	崩米花兒, 爆米花兒
Southern Min	Taipei	磅米芳 GT, 磅番麥 GT
Wu	Shanghai	哈力克
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no particular region identified)