無彩工

Chinese

		regrettable; too bad; a pity regrettable; too bad; a pity; a shame; to waste	work; worker; skill work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labour
trad. (無彩工)		無彩	工
simp. (无彩工)		无彩	工
alternative forms		無采工／無採工／无采工

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bô-chhái-kang

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bô-chhái-kang
    • Tâi-lô: bô-tshái-kang
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boizhay'kafng
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bo¹³⁻²² t͡sʰai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bo²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sʰai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Singapore): /bo²⁴⁻²¹ t͡sʰai⁴²⁻²⁴ kaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bo²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɤ²³⁻³³ t͡sʰai⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kaŋ⁴⁴/

Verb

無彩工

1. (Hokkien) to waste effort; to be in vain; to lose one's pains

References

• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “chhái”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 61; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 61