白麻

Chinese

		white; empty; blank white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous	(to have) pins and needles; tingling; hemp (to have) pins and needles; tingling; hemp; numb; to bother
trad. (白麻)		白	麻
simp. #(白麻)		白	麻

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): báimá

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄞˊ ㄇㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baak⁶ maa⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pe̍h-môa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: báimá
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄞˊ ㄇㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: báimá
    • Wade–Giles: pai²-ma²
    • Yale: bái-má
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bairma
    • Palladius: байма (bajma)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paɪ̯³⁵ mä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baak⁶ maa⁴
    • Yale: baahk màh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baak⁹ maa⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: bag⁶ ma⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːk̚² maː²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pe̍h-môa
    • Tâi-lô: pe̍h-muâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: peqmoaa
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ muã²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ muã²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pe(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ muã²⁴/

Noun

白麻

1. Apocynum pictum
2. (Cantonese) ramie
3. (Xiamen Hokkien) Indian abutilon (Abutilon indicum)
4. (Taiwanese Hokkien) white sesame

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 苧麻 (“ramie”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		苧麻
Taxonomic name		苧麻
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	苧麻
	Harbin	苧麻
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	麻
	Xi'an	苧麻
	Xining	苧麻
	Xuzhou	苧麻
Southwestern Mandarin	Liuzhou	青麻, 元麻
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	苧麻
	Yangzhou	剝皮麻
Cantonese	Guangzhou	白麻
	Dongguan	苧麻
	Nanning	苧麻
Gan	Lichuan	苧麻
	Pingxiang	苧麻
Hakka	Meixian	苧麻, 苧仔
	Yudu	苧麻
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	苧仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	苧仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	苧仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	苧, 苧麻
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	苧
Huizhou	Jixi	苧麻
Jin	Taiyuan	苧麻
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	苧
Southern Min	Xiamen	苧仔
	Zhao'an	苧仔
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	苧仔
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	苧仔
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	苧仔
	Yilan (Luodong)	苧仔
	Yilan (Toucheng)	苧仔
	Tainan (Anping)	苧仔
	Pingtung (Baoli, Checheng)	苧仔
	Shantou	麻苧
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	苧麻
Wu	Shanghai	苧麻
	Danyang	大麻
	Hangzhou	苧麻
	Ningbo	苧麻
	Wenzhou	苧
	Jinhua	青麻
Xiang	Loudi	苧麻

Dialectal synonyms of 磨盤草 (“Indian abutilon”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		磨盤草
Taxonomic name		磨盤草
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	磨盤草
Southern Min	Xiamen	磨仔盾草, 石磨仔, 白麻, 青麻
	Zhangzhou	石磨仔