收嗲

Chinese

		to receive; to accept; to collect to receive; to accept; to collect; in care of (used on address line after name)
trad. (收嗲)		收	嗲
simp. #(收嗲)		收	嗲
alternative forms		收爹

Etymology

嗲 (de1) may be from Teochew 茶 (dê5, “tea”).

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau¹ de¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sau¹ de¹
    • Yale: sāu dē
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau¹ de¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo¹ dé¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯⁵⁵ tɛː⁵⁵/

Verb

收嗲

1. (Cantonese) to stop talking; to shut up
   • 2002 December 12, Alan Mak, Felix Chong, 無間道 [Infernal Affairs], spoken by 陳永仁 [Chen Wing Yan] (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), Media Asia Entertainment Group, Basic Pictures:

     收嗲啦！呢句嘢我聽咗九千幾次啦！ [Cantonese, trad.]
     收嗲啦！呢句嘢我听咗九千几次啦！ [Cantonese, simp.]

     sau¹ de¹ laa¹! ni¹ geoi³ je⁵ ngo⁵ teng¹ zo² gau² cin¹ gei² ci³ laa¹! [Jyutping]

     Shut up! I've heard this sentence more than nine thousand times!

Synonyms

• 住口 (zhùkǒu)
• 住嘴 (zhùzuǐ)
• 絕口／绝口 (juékǒu) (literary)
• 閉嘴／闭嘴 (bìzuǐ) (chiefly as a command)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 住口 (“to shut up; to stop talking”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		住口, 住嘴, 閉嘴
Mandarin	Taiwan	閉嘴
	Singapore	閉嘴, 靜靜
Cantonese	Guangzhou	收聲, 收口, 收嗲, 收皮
	Hong Kong	收聲, 收口, 收嗲, 收皮
	Singapore (Guangfu)	收聲, 收嗲
Hakka	Meixian	合嘴
Southern Min	Tainan	恬去
	Penang (Hokkien)	恬
	Singapore (Hokkien)	恬
	Leizhou	關喙

Related terms

• 搭嗲