袋仔

Chinese

		a pouch; bag; sack a pouch; bag; sack; pocket	minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility
simp. and trad. (袋仔)		袋	仔

Pronunciation

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): thoi-é

  (Meixian, Guangdong): toi⁴ ê³

• Northern Min (KCR): dō-ciě
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tē-á / tēr-á

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• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thoi-é
    • Hakka Romanization System: toi e^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: toi⁴ e³
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰoi̯⁵⁵ e³¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: toi⁴ ê³
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰoɪ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ e³¹/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: dō-ciě
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /to⁵⁵ t͡siɛ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Hsinchu)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tē-á
    • Tâi-lô: tē-á
    • Phofsit Daibuun: de'ar
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /te²²⁻²¹ a⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /te³³ a⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /te³³ a⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Hsinchu, Kinmen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tēr-á
    • Tâi-lô: tēr-á
    • IPA (Kinmen): /tə²²⁻¹² a⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tə⁴¹⁻²² a⁵⁵⁴/

Noun

袋仔

1. (Hakka, Pingxiang Gan, Northern Min, Hokkien) pocket (bag sewn into clothing)
   • 1898, John Macgowan, A Manual of the Amoy Colloquial, 4th edition, Amoy: Chui Keng Tong, page 150:

     問唐人之衫有做袋仔否
     答本然俱無今近來較有 [Hokkien, trad.]
     问唐人之衫有做袋仔否
     答本然俱无今近来较有 [Hokkien, simp.]

     - Tn̂g-lâng ê saⁿ ū chòe tē-á bô
     - Pún-jiân lóng bô taⁿ kūn-lâi khah ū [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     Q. Do the Chinese have pockets in their clothes?
     A. Originally they had not, but lately they are more common.

2. (Hakka, Hokkien) bag; pouch; sack

Synonyms

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		口袋, 衣袋, 衣兜
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	兜兒, 衣袋兒
	Taiwan	口袋
	Harbin	兜兒, 挎兜兒
	Singapore	口袋
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	布袋兒, 布袋子, 口袋兒, 兜兒
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	布袋兒, 布兜兒, 兜兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	兜兒
	Wanrong	布袋
	Xi'an	口袋兒, 底底兒
	Xining	絀絀
	Xuzhou	挎包
Lanyin Mandarin	Lanzhou	兜兜子
	Ürümqi	口袋, 衣服口袋子, 儲褡子
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	包包, 包包兒, 荷包兒
	Wuhan	荷包, 口袋
	Guiyang	荷包
	Guilin	口袋
	Liuzhou	荷包, 口袋
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	荷包
	Yangzhou	口袋
	Hefei	荷包, 口袋
Cantonese	Guangzhou	袋
	Hong Kong	袋
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	袋
	Macau	袋
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	袋
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	袋
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	袋仔
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	袋
	Foshan	袋
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	袋
	Foshan (Shunde)	袋
	Foshan (Sanshui)	袋
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	袋
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	袋
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	袋
	Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka)	袋
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	袋
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	袋
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	袋
	Taishan	袋
	Kaiping (Chikan)	袋
	Enping (Niujiang)	袋
	Heshan (Yayao)	袋
	Dongguan	袋
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	袋
	Yangjiang	袋
Gan	Nanchang	荷包
	Lichuan	荷包
	Pingxiang	袋仔
Hakka	Meixian	袋仔, 衫袋仔
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	袋
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	袋
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	袋
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	袋
	Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua)	燒袋
	Yudu	荷包
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	袋仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	袋仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	袋仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	袋
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	袋仔
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	袋
Huizhou	Jixi	夾袋
Jin	Taiyuan	布袋袋, 倒叉叉, 兜兜
	Xinzhou	倒叉叉, 倒叉子, 布袋袋
Northern Min	Jian'ou	袋仔
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	袋袋
Southern Min	Xiamen	袋仔
	Quanzhou	袋仔, 袋橐
	Jinjiang	通懷, 橐仔
	Yongchun	轆囝
	Zhangzhou	袋仔, 轆袋仔, 交袋仔
	Taipei	轆袋仔
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	轆袋仔
	Kaohsiung	轆袋仔
	Yilan	轆袋仔
	Changhua (Lukang)	通懷仔
	Taichung	轆袋仔
	Tainan	轆袋仔
	Hsinchu	袋仔
	Kinmen	袋仔, 轆仔
	Penghu (Magong)	轆袋仔, 轆仔, 懷
	Singapore (Hokkien)	轆袋, 袋
	Manila (Hokkien)	袋仔, 通懷, 橐仔
	Chaozhou	衫袋
	Shantou	袋
	Jieyang	衫袋
	Puning	勾袋
	Leizhou	袋
	Haikou	袋, 囊
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	袋
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	荷包
Wu	Shanghai	袋, 袋袋
	Shanghai (Chongming)	袋袋
	Suzhou	袋袋
	Danyang	袋袋, 袋子, 口袋
	Hangzhou	袋兒
	Ningbo	袋袋, 袋衫
	Wenzhou	兜兜, 兜
	Jinhua	袋
Xiang	Changsha	襖袋, 荷包
	Loudi	袋公
	Shuangfeng	袋子, 荷包

Dialectal synonyms of 口袋 (“pocket (sewn into clothing)”) [map]

• (bag): 袋子 (dàizi)

Derived terms

• 信袋仔
• 塑膠袋仔／塑胶袋仔 (sok-ka-tē-á)
• 暗袋仔
• 橐袋仔
• 煙袋仔／烟袋仔
• 紙袋仔／纸袋仔
• 衫袋仔
• 褲袋仔／裤袋仔
• 錢袋仔／钱袋仔
• 香袋仔

 

Further reading

• “Entry #7879”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.