母形

Chinese

		female; mother	to appear; to look; form to appear; to look; form; shape
simp. and trad. (母形)		母	形

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bú-hêng / bó-hêng

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bú-hêng
    • Tâi-lô: bú-hîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bw'heeng
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hiɪŋ²³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hiɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hiɪŋ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bó-hêng
    • Tâi-lô: bó-hîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boy'heeng
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hiɪŋ¹³/

Adjective

母形

1. (Hokkien) sissy; effeminate (in one's voice, gesture, behavior, etc.)

Synonyms

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		娘娘腔
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	母裡母氣
	Taiwan	娘娘腔, 娘炮
Central Plains Mandarin	Xuzhou	女裡女氣
Southwestern Mandarin	Guiyang	母聲母氣
Cantonese	Guangzhou	乸型, 婆乸型, 女人型, 女人士
	Hong Kong	乸型, 乸, camp
Gan	Lichuan	娘娘腔
Hakka	Meixian	半婦人
Northern Min	Jian'ou	阿娘相
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	母相
Southern Min	Xiamen	查某體
	Quanzhou	查某體
	Zhangzhou	查某體, 軟母
	Tainan	查某體
	Manila (Hokkien)	查某體
Wu	Shanghai	娘娘腔
	Hangzhou	娘娘腔

Dialectal synonyms of 娘娘腔 (“sissy; effeminate”) [map]

Derived terms

• 母形體 / 母形体

See also

• 母體 / 母体