脫口秀

See also: 脱口秀

Chinese

		to come out of one's mouth; to escape one's lips	to ear; beautiful; elegant to ear; beautiful; elegant; outstanding; to show; to display; show
trad. (脫口秀/脱口秀)		脫口/脱口	秀
simp. (脱口秀)		脱口	秀
Literally: “out-of-mouth show”.

Etymology

脫口秀 has been used to refer to live comedy acts since 1992 or earlier. No later than 2003, it also began to be used to mean talk show. 秀 was borrowed, originally in Taiwan, from English show. 脫口 is a phono-semantic matching derived from 脫口而出 (“to say spontaneously”) and — at least for the “talk show” sense — English talk.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tuōkǒuxiù

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄛ ㄎㄡˇ ㄒㄧㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tyut³ hau² sau³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thoat-khió-siù / thoat-kháu-siù / thoat-khó͘-siù

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tuōkǒuxiù
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄛ ㄎㄡˇ ㄒㄧㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tuokǒusiòu
    • Wade–Giles: tʻo¹-kʻou³-hsiu⁴
    • Yale: twō-kǒu-syòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuokooushiow
    • Palladius: токоусю (tokousju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯ɔ⁵⁵ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tyut³ hau² sau³
    • Yale: tyut háu sau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tyt⁸ hau² sau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: tüd³ heo² seo³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰyːt̚³ hɐu̯³⁵ sɐu̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thoat-khió-siù
    • Tâi-lô: thuat-khió-siù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toatqioysiux
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰuat̚⁵⁻²⁴ kʰio⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ siu⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thoat-kháu-siù
    • Tâi-lô: thuat-kháu-siù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toatqawsiux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰuat̚³²⁻⁴ kʰau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ siu²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thoat-khó͘-siù
    • Tâi-lô: thuat-khóo-siù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toatqofsiux
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰuat̚³²⁻⁵ kʰɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ siu²¹/

Noun

脫口秀

1. stand-up comedy
2. talk show

Synonyms

• (Cantonese) 脫口騷／脱口骚