老闆嫂

Chinese

		shop owner; business proprietor; boss shop owner; business proprietor; boss; chief	older brother's wife; sister-in-law
trad. (老闆嫂/老板嫂)		老闆/老板	嫂
simp. (老板嫂)		老板	嫂

Pronunciation

• Northern Min (KCR): lǎu-bǎing-sǎu
• Eastern Min (BUC): lō̤-*bēng-sō̤

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• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: lǎu-bǎing-sǎu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lau²¹ paiŋ²¹ sau²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: lō̤-*bēng-sō̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃o³³⁻²¹ pɛiŋ³³⁻³⁵ ^(s-)no³³/

Noun

老闆嫂

1. (Northern Min, Eastern Min) proprietress; boss's wife; female boss

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 老闆娘 (“proprietress”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		老闆娘
Mandarin	Beijing	老闆娘
	Taiwan	老闆娘
	Harbin	老闆娘
	Yantai (Muping)	老闆娘
	Jinan	老闆娘
	Luoyang	內掌櫃, 掌櫃婆兒
	Xi'an	老闆娘, 掌櫃娘子 dated, face-to-face, 掌櫃婆娘 dated, non-face-to-face
	Yinchuan	老闆娘
	Ürümqi	老闆娘
	Chengdu	老闆娘, 老闆兒娘
	Guiyang	老闆娘
	Liuzhou	老闆娘
	Xuzhou	老闆娘, 老闆娘子, 掌櫃娘子
	Yangzhou	老闆奶奶
	Nanjing	老闆娘
	Singapore	老闆娘
Cantonese	Guangzhou	事頭婆, 老闆娘
	Hong Kong	事頭婆, 老闆娘
	Taishan	事頭婆
	Yangjiang	老闆娘, 事頭婆
	Singapore (Guangfu)	事頭婆
Gan	Nanchang	老闆娘, 老闆娘子
	Lichuan	老闆娘, 老闆娘子
	Pingxiang	老闆娘子
Hakka	Meixian	老闆娘
	Yudu	老闆娘
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	頭家娘
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	頭家娘
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	頭家娘
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	頭家娘
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	頭家娘
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	頭家娘
Jin	Taiyuan	老闆娘, 女掌櫃, 女掌櫃的
	Xinzhou	老闆娘
Northern Min	Jian'ou	老闆嫂
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	老闆嫂
Southern Min	Xiamen	頭家娘
	Quanzhou	頭家娘
	Zhangzhou	頭家娘
	Taipei	頭家娘
	Kaohsiung	頭家娘
	Penang (Hokkien)	頭家娘, 頭家嫂
	Singapore (Hokkien)	頭家娘
	Manila (Hokkien)	頭家娘
	Singapore (Teochew)	頭家娘
	Leizhou	老闆娘
	Haikou	老闆娘
	Singapore (Hainanese)	頭家娘
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	老闆婆
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	老闆娘, 老闆婆 non-face-to-face
Wu	Shanghai	老闆娘, 老闆娘娘
	Shanghai (Chongming)	老闆娘
	Suzhou	老闆娘
	Danyang	老闆娘, 老闆嫚嫚
	Hangzhou	老闆娘
	Ningbo	老闆娘
	Wenzhou	老闆娘
	Jinhua	老闆兒娘
Xiang	Changsha	老闆娘
	Loudi	老闆娘, 老闆娘子