肉丸

Chinese

		meat; flesh	pill
trad. (肉丸)		肉	丸
simp. #(肉丸)		肉	丸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ròuwán

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄡˋ ㄨㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): juk⁶ jyun^4-2
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): bah-oân

  (Teochew, Peng'im): nêg⁸ in⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ròuwán
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄡˋ ㄨㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ròuwán
    • Wade–Giles: jou⁴-wan²
    • Yale: ròu-wán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rowwan
    • Palladius: жоувань (žouvanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐoʊ̯⁵¹ wän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: juk⁶ jyun^4-2
    • Yale: yuhk yún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁹ jyn^4-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: yug⁶ yun^4-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚² jyːn²¹⁻³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bah-oân
    • Tâi-lô: bah-uân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bah'oaan
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ uan²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ba(ʔ)⁵ uan²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ uan¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ uan²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ uan²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: nêg⁸ in⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ne̍k îⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nek̚⁴⁻² ĩ⁵⁵/

Noun

肉丸

1. meatball

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 肉丸 (“meatball”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		肉丸, 肉丸子, 肉球
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	肉丸
	Singapore	肉圓
Southwestern Mandarin	Guiyang	肉圓子
	Liuzhou	肉圓
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	肉圓兒
	Yangzhou	劗肉
Cantonese	Hong Kong	肉丸
	Dongguan	肉丸
Hakka	Yudu	肉丸子, 肉丸
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	肉丸
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	肉丸
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	肉丸
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	肉丸
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	肉丸
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	肉丸
Southern Min	Xiamen	肉圓仔
	Quanzhou	肉圓仔
	Zhangzhou	肉圓仔
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	肉丸
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	肉丸仔
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	肉丸
	Tainan	肉丸
	Tainan (Anping)	肉丸
	Manila (Hokkien)	肉圓
	Shantou	肉圓
	Jieyang	肉圓
	Haikou	肉丸
Wu	Shanghai	肉圓
	Shanghai (Chongming)	肉圓
	Danyang	肉圓
	Hangzhou	肉圓兒
	Ningbo	肉圓
	Wenzhou	肉圓

Descendants

• → Indonesian: bakwan (via Min Nan)