做功德

Chinese

		to do; to make; to produce	merits and virtues; charitable and pious deeds; benefaction merits and virtues; charitable and pious deeds; benefaction; beneficence; works
simp. and trad. (做功德)		做	功德

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zuògōngdé

(Zhuyin): ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄍㄨㄥㄉㄜˊ
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zo⁴ gorng¹ deh⁶
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chòe-kong-tiak / chòe-kong-tek / chò-kong-tek

(Teochew, Peng'im): zo³ gong¹ dêg⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zuògōngdé
  - Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄍㄨㄥㄉㄜˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zuògongdé
  - Wade–Giles: tso⁴-kung¹-tê²
  - Yale: dzwò-gūng-dé
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuohgongder
  - Palladius: цзогундэ (czogundɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su̯ɔ⁵¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵ tɤ³⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zo⁴ gorng¹ deh⁶ [Phonetic: zo¹ gorng² neh⁶]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ceo̍-go̤ng-deh
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡so⁴²⁻⁵⁵ kɒŋ⁵³³⁻¹³ ^(t-)nɛʔ²¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zo⁴ gorng¹ deh⁶ [Phonetic: zo¹ gorng² neh⁶]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡so⁴²⁻⁵⁵ kɒŋ⁵⁴⁴⁻²⁴ ^(t-)nɛʔ²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chòe-kong-tiak
  - Tâi-lô: tsuè-kong-tiak
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zoea'kongdiag
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sue⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ kɔŋ³³ tiak̚⁵/
- (Hokkien: Taipei, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chòe-kong-tek
  - Tâi-lô: tsuè-kong-tik
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zoea'kongdeg
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sue¹¹⁻⁵³ kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tiɪk̚³²/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sue²¹⁻⁵³ kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tiɪk̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chò-kong-tek
  - Tâi-lô: tsò-kong-tik
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zoirkongdeg
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡so²¹⁻⁵³ kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tiɪk̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sɤ²¹⁻⁴¹ kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tiɪk̚³²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: zo³ gong¹ dêg⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsò kong tek
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡so²¹³⁻⁵⁵ koŋ³³⁻²³ tek̚²/

Verb

做⫽功德 (verb-object)

(religion) to perform Buddhist or Taoist rites to appease and pray for the dead

Synonyms

做道場／做道场 (zuòdàochǎng)

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “做功德”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 594.