筍子

Chinese

		bamboo shoot	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
trad. (筍子)		筍	子
simp. (笋子)		笋	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sǔnzi

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄣˇ ˙ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seon² zi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sǔnzi
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄣˇ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sǔnzi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: sun³-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: swǔn-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: soen.tzy
    • Palladius: суньцзы (sunʹczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯ən²¹⁴ d͡z̥z̩⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seon² zi²
    • Yale: séun jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soen² dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: sên² ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵn³⁵ t͡siː³⁵/

Noun

筍子

1. (dialectal) bamboo shoot

Synonyms

• 竹筍／竹笋 (zhúsǔn)
• (Hokkien, Teochew) 筍／笋 (sǔn), 筍仔／笋仔