貓兒竹

Chinese

		cat	bamboo
trad. (貓兒竹)		貓兒	竹
simp. (猫儿竹)		猫儿	竹
alternative forms		麻兒竹／麻儿竹 貓猊竹／猫猊竹

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bâ-jî-tek / bâ-lî-tek

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bâ-jî-tek
    • Tâi-lô: bâ-jî-tik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: baji'deg
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ba²³⁻³³ zi²³⁻³³ tiɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bâ-lî-tek
    • Tâi-lô: bâ-lî-tik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bali'deg
    • IPA (Taipei): /ba²⁴⁻¹¹ li²⁴⁻¹¹ tiɪk̚³²/

Noun

貓兒竹

1. (Taiwanese Hokkien) moso bamboo

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 毛竹 (“moso bamboo”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		毛竹, 南竹
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	毛竹, 孟宗竹
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	南竹
	Guiyang	毛竹, 南竹
	Liuzhou	毛竹
	Nanning (Wuming)	南竹
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	毛竹
Cantonese	Guangzhou	茅竹
	Nanning	大頭竹
Gan	Nanchang	毛竹
	Lichuan	毛竹
	Pingxiang	毛竹
Hakka	Meixian	茅竹
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	苗狸竹, 苗竹
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	孟宗竹, 苗竹
	Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian)	苗狸竹
	Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian)	苗狸竹
	Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian)	苗狸竹
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	苗眉竹, 苗竹
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	苗兒竹, 埋兒竹, 苗竹
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	苗眉竹, 苗竹
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	苗兒竹, 苗竹
Huizhou	Jixi	毛竹
Northern Min	Jian'ou	麻竹
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	麻竹
Southern Min	Xiamen	毛竹
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	貓兒竹, 貓兒
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	貓兒竹
	Kaohsiung	貓兒
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	麻兒
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	貓兒竹仔
	Tainan (Anping)	貓兒竹
	Shantou	麻竹
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	南竹, 毛竹
Wu	Shanghai	毛竹
	Shanghai (Chongming)	毛竹
	Suzhou	毛竹
	Danyang	毛竹
	Hangzhou	毛竹
	Ningbo	毛竹
	Wenzhou	茅竹
	Jinhua	毛竹, 毛竹兒
Xiang	Changsha	南竹, 南竹子
	Loudi	南竹

References

• “Entry #11955”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.