佯戇

Chinese

		pretend	simple; stupid
trad. (佯戇)		佯	戇
simp. (佯戆)		佯	戆
alternative forms		鄭戇／郑戆 𩏠戇／𩏠戆 𩏠怣 盯戇／盯戆 佯怣 鄭戇／郑戆 𩏠戇／𩏠戆 𩏠怣 盯戇／盯戆 佯怣 盯怣 詐戇／诈戆 假戇／假戆

Pronunciation

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tìⁿ-gōng / tèⁿ-gōng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dên³ gong⁵

---

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tìⁿ-gōng
    • Tâi-lô: tìnn-gōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dvie'gong
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tĩ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ ɡɔŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tĩ¹¹⁻⁵³ ɡɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Singapore): /tĩ²¹⁻⁴² ɡɔŋ²²/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tĩ²¹⁻⁵³ ɡɔŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tèⁿ-gōng
    • Tâi-lô: tènn-gōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dvea'gong
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɛ̃²¹⁻⁵³ ɡɔŋ²²/
    • IPA (Singapore): /tẽ²¹⁻⁴² ɡɔŋ²²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tẽ²¹⁻⁴¹ ɡɔŋ³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: dên³ gong⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tèⁿ kông
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tẽ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ koŋ⁵⁵/

Verb

佯戇

1. (Southern Min) to play the fool; to act dumb or stupid; to play dumb

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 裝傻 (“to play the fool; to play dumb”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		裝傻, 裝糊塗, 裝蒜
Mandarin	Taiwan	裝傻
	Harbin	裝傻, 裝傻充愣
	Jinan	裝傻, 裝傻賣呆
	Wanrong	裝痴賣憨
	Xining	裝懵兒
	Ürümqi	裝傻
	Chengdu	裝悶, 裝瓜, 裝傻, 裝瘋迷竅, 裝貓兒識象
	Guiyang	裝憨
	Liuzhou	裝傻, 裝憨, 詐憨, 詐癲
	Xuzhou	玩憨勢, 裝憨
	Yangzhou	裝憨
Cantonese	Guangzhou	扮懵, 詐傻扮懵, 詐呆詐吽
	Hong Kong	詐傻, 扮傻, 詐傻扮懵, 扮懵
	Dongguan	裝傻扮懞, 詐懞
Gan	Nanchang	裝憨, 裝蟬
	Lichuan	裝憨
Hakka	Meixian	詐癲, 裝傻, 裝傻詐戇
Jin	Taiyuan	裝傻
Northern Min	Jian'ou	裝賴, 裝假死
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	詐歞, 詐癲
Southern Min	Xiamen	佯戇, 佯生
	Quanzhou	佯戇, 佯生
	Jinjiang	佯戇
	Zhangzhou	佯戇, 佯生
	Tainan	佯戇 GT, 激怐怐 GT, 佯生 GT, 佯毋知 GT
	Singapore (Hokkien)	佯戇, 假戇, 假痟
	Manila (Hokkien)	佯戇
	Shantou	裝聾做啞
	Jieyang	佯戇, 佯戇佯傻
	Haikou	裝戇
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	裝傻, 裝痴, 裝戇, 裝癲
Wu	Shanghai	裝湖羊, 裝佯, 裝戇, 詐痴不癲
	Danyang	裝痴裝聾
	Hangzhou	裝痴裝呆
	Jinhua	詐癲, 詐呆
Xiang	Changsha	裝寶, 裝媽, 裝碩, 裝佯媽, 裝佯媽綠, 裝佯意子, 裝迷糊, 裝五十三, 裝五十三兩, 裝綿羊頭
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)