光棍漢

Chinese edit

		bare stick; gangster; hoodlum bare stick; gangster; hoodlum; thug; ruffian; single man; bachelor	Chinese; name of a dynasty; man
trad. (光棍漢)		光棍	漢
simp. (光棍汉)		光棍	汉

Pronunciation edit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): guānggùnhàn

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄤㄍㄨㄣˋ ㄏㄢˋ
Jin (Wiktionary): guon¹ gung³ han³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: guānggùnhàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄤㄍㄨㄣˋ ㄏㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: guanggùnhàn
  - Wade–Giles: kuang¹-kun⁴-han⁴
  - Yale: gwāng-gwùn-hàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guangguennhann
  - Palladius: гуангуньхань (guangunʹxanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ ku̯ən⁵¹⁻⁵³ xän⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: guānggùnrhàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄤㄍㄨㄣˋㄦㄏㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: guanggùnrhàn
  - Wade–Giles: kuang¹-kun⁴-ʼrh-han⁴
  - Yale: gwāng-gwùnr-hàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guangguellhann
  - Palladius: гуангуньрхань (guangunʹrxanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ ku̯əɻ⁵¹⁻⁵³ xän⁵¹/
Jin
- (Taiyuan)⁺
  - Wiktionary: guon¹ gung³ han³
  - Sinological IPA (old-style, no sandhi): /kuɒ̃¹¹ kũŋ⁴⁵ xæ̃⁴⁵/

Noun edit

光棍漢

single man; bachelor

Synonyms edit

Dialectal synonyms of 單身漢 (“bachelor”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		單身漢
Mandarin	Beijing	光棍兒, 光棍兒光, 鰥棍兒
	Taiwan	單身漢
	Harbin	光棍兒, 跑腿子, 光桿子
	Yantai (Muping)	光棍兒, 光棍子, 光漢
	Jinan	光棍兒, 光棍子
	Luoyang	光棍兒, 光棍兒漢兒
	Wanrong	光棍兒
	Xi'an	光棍兒, 光身漢
	Yinchuan	光棍
	Xining	光棍
	Ürümqi	光棍兒
	Wuhan	單身漢, 寡漢條, 光棍
	Chengdu	單身漢兒, 光棍, 光棍兒, 光身漢
	Guiyang	單身漢
	Liuzhou	寡佬, 寡公, 光棍, 單身寡佬
	Xuzhou	光棍漢, 光棍兒漢, 單身漢
	Yangzhou	光棍條子
	Nanjing	單身漢, 光棍
	Hefei	光棍, 光桿子, 寡漢, 寡漢條子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	寡佬, 單身寡佬, 寡仔, 單身寡仔
	Hong Kong	寡佬, 單身寡佬, 王老五
	Taishan	寡佬, 散仔
	Kaiping (Chikan)	寡佬, 散仔
	Dongguan	單身寡佬, 光棍佬
	Yangjiang	寡佬
Gan	Nanchang	單身
Gan	Pingxiang	單身人
Hakka	Meixian	單鳥哥, 單隻阿哥
	Yudu	光棍
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	單身哥仔, 單身哥
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	單身哥仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	單身哥仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	單身哥
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	單身哥仔
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	羅漢腳
Jin	Taiyuan	光棍, 光棍漢, 光棍兒漢
Jin	Xinzhou	光棍
Northern Min	Jian'ou	單身漢, 光棍
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	單身哥
Southern Min	Xiamen	單身漢, 十一叔, 十一哥
	Quanzhou	十一叔
	Zhangzhou	十一叔
	Taipei	十一哥, 羅漢跤仔
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	孤𣮈的, 羅漢跤
	Kaohsiung	十一哥, 羅漢跤仔, 獨身仔
	Yilan	羅漢跤仔, 獨身仔
	Changhua (Lukang)	十一哥, 羅漢跤仔
	Taichung	十一哥, 羅漢跤仔
	Tainan	十一哥, 羅漢跤仔, 獨身仔
	Hsinchu	羅漢跤
	Kinmen	十一哥, 十一叔, 孤身
	Penghu (Magong)	十一哥, 羅漢跤
	Chaozhou	單身囝
	Shantou	單身漢
	Jieyang	單身囝
	Leizhou	單身漢
	Haikou	光棍
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	單身漢, 光棍 derogatory, 光棍兒 derogatory
Wu	Shanghai	單身漢, 光棍, 獨腳伙
	Suzhou	單身漢
	Danyang	單身漢, 光棍條子, 光棍
	Hangzhou	光棍頭
	Ningbo	光棍, 光棍老倌
	Wenzhou	單獨自人, 獨自人
	Jinhua	光棍, 禿鐵兒, 光棍禿鐵兒 derogatory
	Jinhua (Tangxi)	光棍邋遢兒 derogatory
Xiang	Changsha	單身漢, 單身漢子, 光褲帶
	Loudi	光棍
	Shuangfeng	單身家, 單身公