頭家娘

See also: 头家娘

Chinese

		owner	mother; young lady
trad. (頭家娘)		頭家	娘
simp. (头家娘)		头家	娘

Pronunciation

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thèu-kâ-ngiòng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): thâu-ke-niû / thâu-kee-niô͘ / thâu-ke-niô͘ / thâu-kee-niâu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): tao⁵ gê¹ niê⁵ / tao⁵ gê¹ nio⁵

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• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thèu-kâ-ngiòng
    • Hakka Romanization System: teuˇ ga´ ngiongˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: teu² ga¹ ngiong²
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰeu̯¹¹ ka²⁴ ŋi̯oŋ¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese, Singapore, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thâu-ke-niû
    • Tâi-lô: thâu-ke-niû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tau'keniuu
    • IPA (Singapore): /tʰau²⁴⁻²¹ ke⁴⁴⁻²² niu²⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰau²⁴⁻¹¹ ke⁴⁴⁻³³ niũ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /tʰau²⁴⁻²² ke³³ niũ²⁴/
    • IPA (Philippines): /tʰau²⁴⁻²² ke³³ niu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰau²³⁻³³ ke⁴⁴⁻³³ niũ²³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰau²⁴⁻²² ke⁴⁴⁻²² niũ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thâu-kee-niô͘
    • Tâi-lô: thâu-kee-niôo
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰau¹³⁻²² kɛ⁴⁴⁻²² niɔ̃¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Tainan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thâu-ke-niô͘
    • Tâi-lô: thâu-ke-niôo
    • IPA (Tainan): /tʰau²⁴⁻³³ ke⁴⁴⁻³³ niɔ̃²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Penang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thâu-kee-niâu
    • Tâi-lô: thâu-kee-niâu
    • IPA (Penang): /tʰau²³⁻²¹ kɛ³³⁻²¹ niau²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: tao⁵ gê¹ niê⁵ / tao⁵ gê¹ nio⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thâu ke niê / thâu ke niô
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰau⁵⁵⁻¹¹ ke³³⁻²³ nie⁵⁵/, /tʰau⁵⁵⁻¹¹ ke³³⁻²³ nio⁵⁵/

Noun

頭家娘

1. (Hakka, Southern 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

Descendants

• → Thai: เถ้าแก่เนี้ย (tâo-gɛ̀ɛ-níia)