生毛

Chinese

		to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw	hair; fur; one tenth of a yuan or dollar
simp. and trad. (生毛)		生	毛

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saang¹ mou⁴
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): sâng-mô

  (Meixian, Guangdong): sang¹ mau¹

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): seⁿ-mô͘

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saang¹ mou⁴
    • Yale: sāang mòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saang¹ mou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sang¹ mou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːŋ⁵⁵ mou̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sâng-mô
    • Hakka Romanization System: sang^ˊ mo^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sang¹ mo¹
    • Sinological IPA: /saŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ mo²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: sang¹ mau¹
    • Sinological IPA: /saŋ⁴⁴ mau⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: seⁿ-mô͘
    • Tâi-lô: senn-môo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: svemoo
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɛ̃⁴⁴⁻²² mɔ̃¹³/

Verb

生毛

1. (Cantonese, Hakka) to grow hair
2. (Hakka, Zhangzhou Hokkien) to become moldy; to become mildewed

Synonyms

• (to grow hair): 長毛／长毛 (zhǎngmáo)

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		發霉
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	長醭兒, 發霉, 長毛兒
	Taiwan	發霉
	Singapore	發霉
Cantonese	Guangzhou	發毛
	Hong Kong	發毛
	Taishan	發毛
Gan	Nanchang	發霉
Hakka	Meixian	發霉, 生毛
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	發毛, 生毛
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	生菇
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	生菇
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	生菇
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	生菇
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	生菇
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	生菇
Jin	Taiyuan	發霉
Northern Min	Jian'ou	生殕
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	發殕, 發霉
Southern Min	Xiamen	臭殕, 生殕, 上殕, 生菇
	Quanzhou	臭殕, 生殕, 上殕
	Zhangzhou	臭殕, 生殕, 上殕, 生菇, 生毛
	Tainan	生菇, 上殕, 上霉
	Penang (Hokkien)	生菇
	Manila (Hokkien)	臭殕, 生殕, 上殕
	Shantou	生菇
	Jieyang	生菇
	Haifeng	生菇, 發菇
	Singapore (Teochew)	生菇
	Leizhou	生菇, 生菇毛猴
	Haikou	生菇, 發菇
Wu	Shanghai	發霉, 霉脫
	Wenzhou	霉

Dialectal synonyms of 發霉 (“to become mouldy”) [map]