爆米花

Chinese

		to crack; to explode or burst	puffed rice
trad. (爆米花)		爆	米花
simp. #(爆米花)		爆	米花

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bàomǐhuā

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄠˋ ㄇㄧˇ ㄏㄨㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baau³ mai⁵ faa¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bàomǐhuā
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄠˋ ㄇㄧˇ ㄏㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bàomǐhua
    • Wade–Giles: pao⁴-mi³-hua¹
    • Yale: bàu-mǐ-hwā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bawmiihua
    • Palladius: баомихуа (baomixua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑʊ̯⁵¹ mi²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (爆米花兒／爆米花儿)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bàomǐhuār
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄠˋ ㄇㄧˇ ㄏㄨㄚㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bàomǐhuar
    • Wade–Giles: pao⁴-mi³-hua¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: bàu-mǐ-hwār
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bawmiihual
    • Palladius: баомихуар (baomixuar)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑʊ̯⁵¹ mi²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ɑɻ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baau³ mai⁵ faa¹
    • Yale: baau máih fā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baau³ mai⁵ faa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bao³ mei⁵ fa¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːu̯³³ mɐi̯¹³ faː⁵⁵/

Noun

爆米花

1. popcorn
2. puffed rice

Synonyms

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		爆米花, 玉米花
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	爆米花
	Harbin	包米花兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Xuzhou	炸米花兒, 炸花兒, 爆米花兒
Cantonese	Hong Kong	爆穀
Jin	Taiyuan	崩米花兒, 爆米花兒
Southern Min	Taipei	磅米芳 GT, 磅番麥 GT
Wu	Shanghai	哈力克
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no particular region identified)

Dialectal synonyms of 玉米花 (“popcorn”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		爆米花, 米花
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	米花兒
	Taiwan	爆米花
Cantonese	Guangzhou	爆穀, 米通
	Hong Kong	米通
Hakka	Meixian	米𥺆仔
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	米𥺆, 米冇仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	米𥺆
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	米𥺆
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	米冇
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	米𥺆
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	米𥺆, 磅米香
Jin	Taiyuan	崩米花兒, 爆米花兒
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	炒米花, 炒米
Southern Min	Xiamen	米芳
	Quanzhou	米芳
	Zhangzhou	米芳
	Tainan	米芳
	Singapore (Hokkien)	米芳
Puxian Min	Putian	炒米花
	Xianyou	炒米花, 米花
Wu	Shanghai	炒米花
	Danyang	炒米
	Hangzhou	炒米胮, 冬米胮
	Ningbo	冬米胖, 冬米大胖, 冬米大王, 米胖
	Wenzhou	炒米花

Dialectal synonyms of 爆米花 (“puffed rice”) [map]