旗杆厝

Chinese

flagpole; flagstaff
(Min) house; bury; to place
(Min) house; bury; to place; dispose
 
trad. (旗杆厝/旗桿厝) 旗杆/旗桿
simp. (旗杆厝) 旗杆

Pronunciation

  • Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gi2 gua1 cou4 / gi2 guann1 cou4

  • Puxian Min
    • (Putian)
      • Pouseng Ping'ing: gi2 gua1 cou4 [Phonetic: gi5 ua5 lou4]
      • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gí-guaⁿ-cho̍
      • Sinological IPA (key): /ki¹³⁻¹¹ (k-)ua⁵³³⁻¹¹ (t͡sʰ-)lɔu⁴²/
    • (Xianyou)
      • Pouseng Ping'ing: gi2 guann1 cou4 [Phonetic: gi5 uann5 nou4]
      • Sinological IPA (key): /ki²⁴⁻²¹ (k-)ũã⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ (t͡sʰ-)nɔu⁴²/

Noun

旗杆厝

  1. (Puxian Min) a large house with a flagpole in front of it, indicating that the ancestors of the family in this house had served as officials or passed the imperial examinations (舉人 or 進士)

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), “旗杆厝”, 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 210.