手形

Chinese

		hand; convenient; ‑er	to appear; to look; form to appear; to look; form; shape
simp. and trad. (手形)		手	形

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 手(て)形(がた) (tegata).

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhiú-hêng

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiú-hêng
    • Tâi-lô: tshiú-hîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiw'heeng
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hiɪŋ²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hiɪŋ²⁴/

Noun

手形

1. (Taiwanese Hokkien) cheque

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 支票 (“cheque”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		支票
Mandarin	Taiwan	支票
	Singapore	支票
Cantonese	Guangzhou	支票, 則紙
	Hong Kong	支票, cheque
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	支票
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	支票
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	支票
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	支票
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	支票
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	支票, 錢票
Southern Min	Xiamen	支票
	Quanzhou	支票
	Zhangzhou	支票
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	支票, 手形
	Tainan (Anping)	支票, 手形
	Penang (Hokkien)	cheque
	Manila (Hokkien)	cheque, 支票
Wu	Hangzhou	支票

References

• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “手形”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1], volume 2 (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC, page 147
• “Entry #13668”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
手	形
て Grade: 1	かた > がた Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Noun

手(て)形(がた) • (tegata) 

1. handprint
2. bill, draft