啦啦

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (啦啦)		啦	啦

Etymology

Probably from reduplication of Hokkien 蜊 (lâ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lālā

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄚ ㄌㄚ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): la-la

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lālā
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄚ ㄌㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lala
    • Wade–Giles: la¹-la¹
    • Yale: lā-lā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lhalha
    • Palladius: лала (lala)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lä⁵⁵ lä⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Penang, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: la-la
    • Tâi-lô: la-la
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lalaf
    • IPA (Singapore): /la⁴⁴⁻²² la⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Penang): /la³³⁻²¹ la³³/

Noun

啦啦

1. (Malaysia, Singapore) clam

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 蛤蜊 (“clam”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		蛤蜊
Mandarin	Beijing	蛤蜊
	Taiwan	蛤蜊
	Jinan	蛤拉
	Luoyang	海蚌兒
	Ürümqi	蚌殼子
	Yangzhou	蛤蜊
	Malaysia	啦啦
	Singapore	啦啦
Cantonese	Guangzhou	蜆
	Hong Kong	蜆
	Dongguan	蛤蜊
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	啦啦
Hakka	Meixian	蜆仔, 順𧋓仔
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	蜆仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	蜆仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	蜆仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	蜆
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	蜆仔, 蜆
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	蜆子
Jin	Taiyuan	海鉢鉢
Northern Min	Jian'ou	蛤蜊
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	蛤蜊
Southern Min	Xiamen	蚶, 蜊仔, 沙蜊, 蟯
	Quanzhou	蚶, 沙蜊, 蟯
	Zhangzhou	蚶, 蜊仔, 蟯
	Tainan	蚶仔, 蜊仔, 蟯仔, 粉蟯
	Penang (Hokkien)	蜊蜊
	Singapore (Hokkien)	蚶, 蜊蜊, 沙蜊
	Manila (Hokkien)	蚶
Wu	Shanghai	蛤蜊
	Shanghai (Chongming)	麻蚶子
	Suzhou	阿蜊
	Hangzhou	蛤蜊
	Ningbo	蛤皮, 圓蛤
	Wenzhou	蚶兒
Xiang	Changsha	湖殼子

Descendants

• → English: la la