花當

Chinese

		flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern	to pawn; to take on mortgage
trad. (花當)		花	當
simp. (花当)		花	当

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoe-tǹg

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoe-tǹg
    • Tâi-lô: hue-tǹg
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoe'dngx
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hue³³ tŋ̍⁴¹/

Noun

花當

1. (Quanzhou Hokkien, gambling, historical) an illegal gambling numbers game, from Early Ming dynasty till it was banned in 1949, historically popular in Fujian, Guangdong, Shanghai, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Tianjin, Beijing, and further across Mainland China, Taiwan, and abroad

   Synonym: 花會／花会 (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taiwanese)

   1. (gambling, historical) a gambling game using an octangular teetotum with 5 to 8 characters
   2. (gambling, historical) a gambling game played by shaking dice without a teetotum with up to 37 characters

Compounds

• 花當山／花当山
• 買花當／买花当

 

Descendants

• → English: jueteng, hueteng
• → Spanish: jueteng
• → Tagalog: huweteng, jueteng

See also

• 撚寶／撚宝

Further reading

• “清末明初的另類彩票——打花會”, in 每日頭條‎, 2018 January 8
• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “hoe-hē”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 124; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 124
• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “bóe-hoe-tǹg”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 147; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 147
• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “bóe hoe-tǹg”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 512; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 512