盲腸
See also: 盲肠
Chinese edit
blind | intestines | ||
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trad. (盲腸) | 盲 | 腸 | |
simp. (盲肠) | 盲 | 肠 |
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
盲腸
- (anatomy) caecum
- (anatomy, proscribed) appendix
- (neologism, Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of 盲點/盲点 (mángdiǎn). See 突破盲腸/突破盲肠.
Synonyms edit
- (caecum):
Dialectal synonyms of 盲腸 (“caecum”) [map]
Variety | Location | Words |
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Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 盲腸 | |
Mandarin | Taiwan | 盲腸 |
Harbin | 盲腸兒 | |
Yantai (Muping) | 盲腸兒 | |
Jinan | 盲腸 | |
Luoyang | 盲腸 | |
Yinchuan | 盲腸 | |
Xining | 盲腸 | |
Ürümqi | 盲腸 | |
Wuhan | 盲腸 | |
Chengdu | 盲腸 | |
Xuzhou | 盲腸 | |
Nanjing | 盲腸 | |
Singapore | 盲腸 | |
Cantonese | Hong Kong | 盲腸 |
Dongguan | 盲腸 | |
Gan | Lichuan | 盲腸 |
Pingxiang | 盲腸, 闌尾 | |
Hakka | Meixian | 盲腸 |
Huizhou | Jixi | 盲腸 |
Jin | Taiyuan | 盲腸 |
Xinzhou | 盲腸 | |
Southern Min | Xiamen | 生腸 |
Tainan | 盲腸 | |
Haikou | 盲腸 | |
Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 盲腸 |
Wu | Shanghai | 盲腸 |
Shanghai (Chongming) | 盲腸 | |
Suzhou | 盲腸 | |
Danyang | 盲腸 | |
Hangzhou | 盲腸 | |
Ningbo | 盲腸 | |
Wenzhou | 盲腸 | |
Jinhua | 盲腸 |
Derived terms edit
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | |
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盲 | 腸 |
もう Grade: S |
ちょう Grade: 6 |
kan’on |
Etymology edit
/mautyau/ → /mɔːt͡ɕɔː/ → /moːt͡ɕoː/
From Middle Chinese 盲腸 (MC maeng drjang, literally “blind gut”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
盲腸 • (mōchō) ←まうちやう (mautyau)?
Usage notes edit
The appendix sense is common in everyday parlance, but is incorrect in medical contexts, where this term refers more specifically to the caecum. The medical term for the appendix is 虫垂 (chūsui).[2][1]
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
- 盲腸炎 (mōchōen, “appendicitis”)
- 盲腸線 (mōchōsen, “a branch line of a railway”)
References edit
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.