棋盤箔

Chinese

		chessboard; large square sheets of foil-paper, burnt to idols.	bamboo screen; door screen; metal foil bamboo screen; door screen; metal foil; leaf; sheet; tinsel
trad. (棋盤箔)		棋盤	箔
simp. (棋盘箔)		棋盘	箔

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Eastern Min (BUC): gì-buàng-bŏ̤h

Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: gì-buàng-bŏ̤h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki⁵³⁻³³ ^(p-)βuaŋ⁵³⁻³³ ^(p-)moʔ⁵/

Noun

棋盤箔

(Eastern Min) large square sheets of foil-paper, burnt to idols.

Synonyms

元寶 / 元宝 (nguòng-bō̤) (Eastern Min)
冥幣 / 冥币 (míngbì)
冥紙 / 冥纸
冥鈔 / 冥钞 (míngchāo)
冥錢 / 冥钱
冥鏹 / 冥镪 (ming⁵ koeng⁵) (Cantonese)
棋盤 / 棋盘 (gì-buàng) (Eastern Min)
楮錢 / 楮钱 (chǔqián) (literary)
溪錢 / 溪钱 (kai¹ cin⁴) (Cantonese)
神紙 / 神纸
箔仔 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
紙字 / 纸字 (Hokkien)
紙楮 / 纸楮
紙紮 / 纸扎 (zhǐzhá)
紙錢 / 纸钱 (zhǐqián)
衣紙 / 衣纸 (yīzhǐ)
金紙 / 金纸
金銀紙 / 金银纸 (jīnyínzhǐ)
銀紙 / 银纸 (Hokkien)
錢紙 / 钱纸 (zienn² zhr³) (Xiang)
陰司紙 / 阴司纸 (jam¹ si¹ zi²) (Cantonese)
陰司錢 / 阴司钱
鬼鈔 / 鬼钞 (guǐchāo)

References

(Eastern Min) R. S. Maclay, C. C. Baldwin, S. H. Leger (1929) Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect‎^[1], 3 edition, page 646