花臉

Chinese

		flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern	face
trad. (花臉)		花	臉
simp. (花脸)		花	脸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huāliǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚ ㄌㄧㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faa¹ lim⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huāliǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚ ㄌㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hualiǎn
    • Wade–Giles: hua¹-lien³
    • Yale: hwā-lyǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hualean
    • Palladius: хуалянь (xualjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵⁵ li̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huāliǎnr
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚ ㄌㄧㄢˇㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hualiǎnr
    • Wade–Giles: hua¹-lien³-ʼrh
    • Yale: hwā-lyǎnr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hualeal
    • Palladius: хуаляньр (xualjanʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵⁵ li̯ɑɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faa¹ lim⁵
    • Yale: fā líhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faa¹ lim⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: fa¹ lim⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faː⁵⁵ liːm¹³/

Noun

花臉

1. flowery-face role (a popular name for the painted face role 淨, so called from the elaborate face painting)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 淨角 (“painted-face role”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		淨, 淨角
Mandarin	Beijing	花臉兒, 花臉
	Harbin	花臉
	Yantai (Muping)	花臉
	Jinan	淨, 花臉
	Luoyang	黑頭
	Wanrong	花臉
	Xi'an	花臉
	Lanzhou	花臉
	Ürümqi	花臉
	Wuhan	花臉
	Chengdu	花臉
	Guiyang	花臉, 大花臉
	Liuzhou	淨角, 花臉
	Xuzhou	花臉
	Yangzhou	花臉
	Nanjing	花臉
Cantonese	Dongguan	大花面
Gan	Nanchang	大花臉
	Lichuan	花面
	Pingxiang	花臉
Hakka	Meixian	淨
	Yudu	大花面
Jin	Xinzhou	唱黑哩
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	花面
Southern Min	Xiamen	花面, 大淨, 淨
	Zhangzhou	大淨
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	花面, 大花面
Wu	Shanghai	大花面
	Suzhou	大面
	Danyang	大面
	Hangzhou	大花臉, 大面
	Ningbo	大花臉
	Jinhua	大花面
Xiang	Changsha	花臉