退婚

Chinese

		retreat; to decline; to move back retreat; to decline; to move back; to withdraw	to marry; marriage; wedding to marry; marriage; wedding; to take a wife
trad. (退婚)		退	婚
simp. #(退婚)		退	婚

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tuìhūn

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄟˋ ㄏㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): teoi³ fan¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thui-fûn
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thè-hun / thòe-hun

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tuìhūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄟˋ ㄏㄨㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tuèihun
    • Wade–Giles: tʻui⁴-hun¹
    • Yale: twèi-hwūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tueyhuen
    • Palladius: туйхунь (tujxunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯eɪ̯⁵¹ xu̯ən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: teoi³ fan¹
    • Yale: teui fān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: toey³ fan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: têu³ fen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɵy̯³³ fɐn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thui-fûn
    • Hakka Romanization System: tui fun^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tui⁴ fun¹
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰu̯i⁵⁵ fun²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thè-hun
    • Tâi-lô: thè-hun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tea'hwn
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰe²¹⁻⁴¹ hun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰe²¹⁻⁵³ hun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰe¹¹⁻⁵³ hun⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thòe-hun
    • Tâi-lô: thuè-hun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toea'hwn
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰue²¹⁻⁴¹ hun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰue¹¹⁻⁵³ hun⁴⁴/

Verb

退婚

1. to break off an engagement; to call off an engagement

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 退婚 (“to break off an engagement; to call off an engagement”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		退婚, 退親
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	退婚
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	退親
	Xi'an	退親
Cantonese	Hong Kong	退婚
Hakka	Meixian	退親, 退婚
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	退婚
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	退婚
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	退婚
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	退婚
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	退婚
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	退婚
Huizhou	Jixi	退婚
Jin	Taiyuan	退親
Southern Min	Xiamen	退定
	Quanzhou	退定
	Zhangzhou	退定
	Tainan	退定, 退婚
Wu	Shanghai (Chongming)	退婚

See also

• 悔婚 (huǐhūn)