做嘢

Chinese

		to do; to make; to produce	(Cantonese) thing
simp. and trad. (做嘢)		做	嘢

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zou⁶ je⁵

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zou⁶ je⁵
    • Yale: jouh yéh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzou⁶ je⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: zou⁶ yé⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sou̯²² jɛː¹³/

Verb

做⫽嘢 (verb-object)

1. (Cantonese) to work; to do things

Synonyms

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		工作, 幹活
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	幹活兒
	Taiwan	工作
	Singapore	做工
Cantonese	Guangzhou	做嘢, 做工
	Hong Kong	做嘢
	Taishan	做工
	Singapore (Guangfu)	做工
Gan	Nanchang	做事
Hakka	Meixian	做事
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	做事
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	做事
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	做事
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	做事
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	做事
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	做事
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	做事計
Southern Min	Xiamen	做穡, 做工課
	Jinjiang	作穡
	Taipei	作穡
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	作穡
	Kaohsiung	作穡的
	Yilan	作穡
	Changhua (Lukang)	作穡
	Taichung	做工課, 作穡
	Tainan	作穡
	Hsinchu	做工仔, 做穡
	Kinmen	做工
	Penghu (Magong)	做穡
	Penang (Hokkien)	做工
	Singapore (Hokkien)	做工
	Manila (Hokkien)	作穡, 做工, 做頭路
	Shantou	做工, 做事, 做工課
	Singapore (Teochew)	做工
	Singapore (Hainanese)	做工
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	做工

Dialectal synonyms of 工作 (“to work; to do work”) [map]