冬粉
Chinese
| phonetic | dust; powder | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (冬粉) | 冬 | 粉 | |
| simp. #(冬粉) | 冬 | 粉 | |
| alternative forms | 東粉／东粉 | ||
Etymology
Hokkien 冬粉 (tang-hún), also historically written as 東粉 / 东粉 (tang-hún), is historically an ellipsis of 山東粉 / 山东粉 (soaⁿ-tang-hún) as per Ogawa (1932).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: dōngfěn
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄥ ㄈㄣˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dongfěn
- Wade–Giles: tung1-fên3
- Yale: dūng-fěn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dongfeen
- Palladius: дунфэнь (dunfɛnʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʊŋ⁵⁵ fən²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: dung1 fan2
- Yale: dūng fán
- Cantonese Pinyin: dung1 fan2
- Guangdong Romanization: dung1 fen2
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʊŋ⁵⁵ fɐn³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
Noun
冬粉
- (chiefly Hokkien, Taiwan, Singapore) vermicelli cellophane noodles (historically made from mung bean starch) (Classifier: 把)
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 粉絲 (“cellophane noodles”) [map]
Descendants
- → English: tang hoon
- → Malay: tanghun
Further reading
- 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “東粉”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary][1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
- 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “山東粉”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary][2] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC