浪頭

Chinese

		wave; breaker; unrestrained wave; breaker; unrestrained; dissipated	head; (noun suffix)
trad. (浪頭)		浪	頭
simp. (浪头)		浪	头

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): làngtóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄤˋ ㄊㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): long⁶ tau⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lōng-thâu
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶laon-deu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: làngtóu → làngtou (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄤˋ ㄊㄡˊ → ㄌㄤˋ ˙ㄊㄡ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: làngto̊u
    • Wade–Giles: lang⁴-tʻou⁵
    • Yale: làng-tou
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lanq.tour
    • Palladius: лантоу (lantou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑŋ⁵¹ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/ → /lɑŋ⁵¹ tʰoʊ̯¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: long⁶ tau⁴
    • Yale: lohng tàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: long⁶ tau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: long⁶ teo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔːŋ²² tʰɐu̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lōng-thâu
    • Tâi-lô: lōng-thâu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: loxngtaau
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lɔŋ²²⁻²¹ tʰau²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔŋ⁴¹⁻²² tʰau²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔŋ²²⁻²¹ tʰau¹³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶laon-deu
    • MiniDict: laon^去 deu
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³laan-deu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /lɑ̃²² dɤ⁴⁴/

Noun

浪頭

1. (informal, dialectal) wave
2. trend

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 浪 (“wave”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		瀾, 浪
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		浪
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	浪
	Singapore	浪
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	浪頭
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	浪
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	浪子
Cantonese	Hong Kong	浪
Gan	Nanchang	浪
Huizhou	Jixi	浪頭
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	浪
Southern Min	Xiamen	湧
	Quanzhou	湧
	Zhangzhou	湧
	Tainan	湧
	Jieyang	湧
	Leizhou	湧
	Haikou	湧
Wu	Shanghai	浪頭
	Shanghai (Chongming)	浪頭
	Ningbo	浪頭, 浪