How do you write these Hokkien words

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siamiwako
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How do you write these Hokkien words

Post by siamiwako »

How do you write these Hokkien words?
Beard: "ts'ui ch'iu" and "ho ch'iu"
嘴鬚?鬍鬚?
I know how to say them I can't write them.
SimL
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Re: How do you write these Hokkien words

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That is indeed how *I* would write them. But in this field I'm one of the least knowledgable of the regular posters, so we'll have to wait for the others to respond...
Ah-bin
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Re: How do you write these Hokkien words

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I would write the first one as 喙鬚, I think most serious written Hokkien (Taiwanese literary magazines, textbooks etc.) uses this.
niuc
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Re: How do you write these Hokkien words

Post by niuc »

Both 嘴鬚 and 喙鬚 are OK for me as long as practical (I guess I am quite pragmatic about Hokkien or any language), but again I am not a linguist. :mrgreen:

About 鬍鬚, may be it was originated from 胡鬚 i.e. only 胡人 had it?

I want to borrow this thread to ask some words. Praying mantis is 螳螂 tông-lông, but in my variant we usually say tak-ku-chī_ā. How do you say it in your variants? Thanks!
siamiwako
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Re: How do you write these Hokkien words

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niuc wrote:Both 嘴鬚 and 喙鬚 are OK for me as long as practical (I guess I am quite pragmatic about Hokkien or any language), but again I am not a linguist. :mrgreen:

About 鬍鬚, may be it was originated from 胡鬚 i.e. only 胡人 had it?

I want to borrow this thread to ask some words. Praying mantis is 螳螂 tông-lông, but in my variant we usually say tak-ku-chī_ā. How do you say it in your variants? Thanks!
Most likely tang-lang (?), but I say "mantis" (in english) most of the time.

書 = c'e for (冊)
學校 = o-teng (very likely 學堂)
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