打耳光

Chinese

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen	box on the ears; slap in the face; blow
trad. (打耳光)		打	耳光
simp. #(打耳光)		打	耳光

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎ ěrguāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˇ ㄦˇ ㄍㄨㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² ji⁵ gwong¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎ ěrguāng [Phonetic: dáěrguāng]
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄦˇ ㄍㄨㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎ ěrguang
    • Wade–Giles: ta³ êrh³-kuang¹
    • Yale: dǎ ěr-gwāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daa eelguang
    • Palladius: да эргуан (da erguan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daa² ji⁵ gwong¹
    • Yale: dá yíh gwōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daa² ji⁵ gwong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: da² yi⁵ guong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ jiː¹³ kʷɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Verb

打⫽耳光 (verb-object)

1. to box someone's ears; to slap someone on the face

Synonyms

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• 兜巴星 (dau¹ baa¹ sing¹) (Cantonese)
• 冚 (kam2) (Cantonese)
• 戳鏡／戳镜 (⁷tshoq-cin) (Wu, dated)
• 打嘴角 (Hakka)
• 打耳刮
• 打耳刮子
• 批頰／批颊
• 拍喙䫌／拍喙𱂮 (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 掌嘴 (zhǎngzuǐ)
• 掌摑／掌掴 (zhǎngguāi)
• 揌喙䫌／揌喙𱂮 (Min Nan)
• 搧喙䫌／搧喙𱂮 (Quanzhou Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien, Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 搏頰／搏颊 (literary)
• 摑耳光／掴耳光 (guāi'érguāng)
• 擗喙䫌／擗喙𱂮 (Tainan Hokkien)
• 筰 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)

 

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		打耳光, 掌嘴, 打嘴巴
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	打耳括子
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	打嘴角
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	打嘴角, 噼嘴角
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	打嘴角
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	打嘴角
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	打嘴角
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	搧嘴䫌
Southern Min	Xiamen	搧喙䫌, 抉喙䫌, 拍喙䫌
	Quanzhou	搧喙䫌, 抉喙䫌
	Zhangzhou	搧喙䫌, 抉喙䫌
	Tainan	擗喙䫌, 搧喙䫌 GT
Wu	Hangzhou	喫耳光
	Ningbo	摑耳光, 搧巴掌

Dialectal synonyms of 打耳光 (“to box someone's ears; to slap someone on the face”) [map]