銀剪

Chinese

		silver; money	cut with scissors; scissors
trad. (銀剪)		銀	剪
simp. (银剪)		银	剪

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): gûn-chián

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gûn-chián
    • Tâi-lô: gûn-tsián
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gunciern
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɡun²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡siɛn⁵³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɡun²⁴⁻²² t͡siɛn⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɡun²³⁻³³ t͡siɛn⁴¹/

Noun

銀剪

1. (Hokkien) strong shears for cutting silver

Related terms

• 鉸剪／铰剪
• 鉸刀／铰刀
• 鉸攆／铰撵
• 剪刀 (jiǎndāo)

Further reading

• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “銀剪”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC, page 400
• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “gûn-chién”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 47; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 47