肉丸

Chinese

		meat; flesh	pill
trad. (肉丸)		肉	丸
simp. #(肉丸)		肉	丸
alternative forms		𬁲丸 Puxian Min 庅丸 Puxian Min

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ròuwán

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄡˋ ㄨㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): juk⁶ jyun^4-2
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): ngiuk-ièn

  (Hailu, HRS): ngiug rhan

• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): noeh⁷ uei² / nyh⁷ uinn² / ma⁶ uinn²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): bah-oân

  (Teochew, Peng'im): nêg⁸ in⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ròuwán
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄡˋ ㄨㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ròuwán
    • Wade–Giles: jou⁴-wan²
    • Yale: ròu-wán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rowwan
    • Palladius: жоувань (žouvanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐoʊ̯⁵¹ wän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: juk⁶ jyun^4-2
    • Yale: yuhk yún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁹ jyn^4-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: yug⁶ yun^4-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚² jyːn²¹⁻³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngiuk-ièn
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngiug^ˋ ien^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngiug⁵ ian²
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋi̯uk̚² i̯en¹¹/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngiug rhan
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋiuk⁵⁻² ʒan⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: noeh⁷ uei² [Phonetic: noeh⁶ uei²]
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ne̤̍h-óiⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nœʔ⁴⁻²¹ uei¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: nyh⁷ uinn² [Phonetic: nyh⁶ uinn²]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nyʔ⁴⁻² ũĩ²⁴/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ma⁶ uinn² [Phonetic: ma¹ uinn²]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ma²¹⁻⁵⁵ ũĩ²⁴/

Note:

• noeh7 uei2/ma5 uinn2 - regular meatball;
• ma5 uinn2 - snack food from Xianyoru.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bah-oân
    • Tâi-lô: bah-uân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bah'oaan
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ uan²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ba(ʔ)⁵ uan²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ uan¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ uan²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ uan²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: nêg⁸ in⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ne̍k îⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nek̚⁴⁻² ĩ⁵⁵/

Noun

肉丸

1. meatball
   1. (Xianyou Puxian Min) a traditional snack food from Xianyou, Fujian province in Chinese cuisine, made by grinding meat with seasonings (such as mushrooms and herbs), mixing with starch, and forming into small round balls.

Synonyms

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		肉丸, 肉丸子, 肉球
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	肉丸
	Singapore	肉圓
Southwestern Mandarin	Guiyang	肉圓子
	Liuzhou	肉圓
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	肉圓兒
	Yangzhou	劗肉
Cantonese	Hong Kong	肉丸
	Dongguan	肉丸
Hakka	Yudu	肉丸子, 肉丸
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	肉丸
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	肉丸
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	肉丸
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	肉丸
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	肉丸
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	肉丸
Southern Min	Xiamen	肉圓仔
	Quanzhou	肉圓仔
	Zhangzhou	肉圓仔
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	肉丸
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	肉丸仔
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	肉丸
	Tainan	肉丸
	Tainan (Anping)	肉丸
	Manila (Hokkien)	肉圓
	Shantou	肉圓
	Jieyang	肉圓
	Haikou	肉丸
Wu	Shanghai	肉圓
	Shanghai (Chongming)	肉圓
	Danyang	肉圓
	Hangzhou	肉圓兒
	Ningbo	肉圓
	Wenzhou	肉圓

Dialectal synonyms of 肉丸 (“meatball”) [map]

Descendants

• → Indonesian: bakwan (via Hokkien)

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “庅丸”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 376.