雪茄
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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Borrowed from English cigar via a Southern variety of Chinese.
Folk etymology commonly describes poet Xu Zhimo (1897–1931) as coining this translation in 1924, in a casual conversation with Rabindranath Tagore, on the grounds that the cigar is similar to lotus stem (茄) and the ash is similar to snow (雪). However, this term had already been used in 《出使英法義比四國日記續》, a late 19th century text, and Officialdom Unmasked, a 1903 novel.
雪茄
Variety | Location | Words |
---|---|---|
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 雪茄, 雪茄煙, 捲煙 | |
Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 雪茄 |
Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 雪茄 |
Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 捲煙 |
Xi'an | 捲煙 | |
Southwestern Mandarin | Nanning (Wuming) | 雪茄 |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | 雪茄, 呂宋煙 |
Hong Kong | 雪茄 | |
Rongxian | 雪茄 | |
Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô) | 雪茄 | |
Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà) | 雪茄 | |
Fangchenggang (Fangcheng) | 雪茄 | |
Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) | 雪茄, 珠律 | |
Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu) | 雪茄 | |
Móng Cái | 雪茄 | |
Hakka | Meixian | 麻姑煙, 雪茄 |
Yudu | 呂宋煙 | |
Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 雪茄 | |
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 雪茄 | |
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 雪茄 | |
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 雪茄 | |
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 雪茄 | |
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 雪茄 | |
Senai (Huiyang) | 珠律 | |
Southern Min | Xiamen | 珠律, 色牙 |
Xiamen (Tong'an) | 珠律 | |
Quanzhou | 珠律 | |
Zhangzhou | 珠律, 老果 | |
Penang (Hokkien) | 珠律 | |
Singapore (Hokkien) | 珠律 | |
Chaozhou | 珠律 | |
Jieyang | 珠律, 雪茄 | |
Chiang Mai (Teochew) | 珠律 | |
Hat Yai (Teochew) | 珠律 | |
Johor Bahru (Teochew) | 珠律 | |
Wu | Shanghai | 雪茄煙, 雪茄 |
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