Rice Cooker

[Mark Yong]

How about 木筐 ？ The 『國語辭典』 defines 筐 as 盛物之方型竹器. Okay, granted the definition specifically states that a 筐 is made out of bamboo and is square/rectangular in shape, and does not say anything about cooking with it!

Some pictures I got off the Web:


竹木筐

[niuc]

Mark, probably it is!

Btw how do you say "frame" in your variant? Mine is "khing" 框, usually kìaⁿkhing 鏡框 (photo frame). In Mandarin 框 is usually kuang4, although I also found kuang1 in IME. Hokkien "khing" (T1) is confirmed by 當代泉州音字彙, including the phrase 鏡框. However, 筐 is kuang1 in Mandarin and also "khing" (or "khong") according to 當代泉州音字彙. In my variant, I say bòkkhīng rather than bòkkhing. So the tones of 框 and 筐 in Mandarin and my Hokkien variant seem to be 倒反 in this case, if bòkkhīng is really 木筐.

[Mark Yong]

niuc wrote:
Btw how do you say "frame" in your variant? Mine is "khing" 框, usually kìaⁿkhing 鏡框 (photo frame).

Yup, Penang Hokkien uses 框 kheng1, too. It was one of the first few ‘new’ words that I learnt during my early days in Penang. I first heard it used when I visited an old photo studio down in Georgetown’s Cintra Street (汕頭街 Suaⁿ3 Thau5 Ke1) to have a new set of wooden photo frames custom-made for my great-grandparents’ portraits.