五腳砌

Chinese

		five	role; foot; base	to build by laying bricks or stones
trad. (五腳砌)		五	腳	砌
simp. (五脚砌)		五	脚	砌
alternative forms		五骹砌

Etymology

Partial calque of Malay kaki lima (literally “five feet”), from 五 (“five”) + phono-semantic matching of Malay kaki (“foot”).

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): ngou⁶ ka¹ gih⁴

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• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ngou⁶ ka¹ gih⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ngŏu kha kih
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋou³⁵⁻¹¹ kʰa³³⁻²³ kiʔ²/

Noun

五腳砌

1. (Teochew) five-foot way (roofed pedestrian walkway under a qilou)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 騎樓下 (“five-foot way (roofed pedestrian walkway under a qilou)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Mandarin	Taiwan	騎樓下
Cantonese	Guangzhou	騎樓底
	Hong Kong	騎樓底
	Taishan	騎樓底
	Kaiping (Chikan)	騎樓底
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	店亭下
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	店亭下
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	店亭下
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	店亭下, 簷脣下, 涼亭下
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	店亭下
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	店頭下
Southern Min	Xiamen	五跤記
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	五跤記
	Quanzhou	五跤記
	Jinjiang	五跤記
	Zhangzhou	五跤記
	Taipei	亭仔跤
	Kaohsiung	亭仔跤
	Yilan	亭仔跤
	Changhua (Lukang)	亭仔跤
	Taichung	涼亭仔跤
	Tainan	店亭仔
	Kinmen	五跤記
	Penghu (Magong)	亭仔跤
	Penang (Hokkien)	五跤記
	Singapore (Hokkien)	五跤記
	Chaozhou	五腳砌
	Shantou (Chenghai)	五腳砌
	Singapore (Teochew)	五腳砌