參仔

Chinese

		ginseng	minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility
trad. (參仔/蔘仔)		參/蔘	仔
simp. (参仔)		参	仔

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sim-á

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sim-á
    • Tâi-lô: sim-á
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sim'ar
    • IPA (Taipei): /sim⁴⁴⁻³³ a⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sim⁴⁴⁻³³ a⁴¹/

Noun

參仔

1. (Taiwanese Hokkien) ginseng (any of several plants, of the genus Panax)

   • 不通將蔘仔當作是菜頭 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     不通将参仔当作是菜头 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     From: 1992, 陳雷, lyrics by 劉聖雯, 我不是開玩笑

     m̄-thang chiong sim-á tòng-chò sī chhài-thâu [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     Don't take ginseng for radish

Synonyms

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		人參
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	人參
	Singapore	人參
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	人參
	Wanrong	人參
	Xi'an	人參
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	參
Cantonese	Guangzhou	參
	Hong Kong	人參, 參
Gan	Nanchang	人參
	Lichuan	人參
	Pingxiang	人參, 參
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	參
Southern Min	Xiamen	人參
	Quanzhou	人參
	Zhangzhou	人參
	Tainan	參仔
	Leizhou	參
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	人參
Wu	Suzhou	人參

Dialectal synonyms of 人參 (“ginseng”) [map]