活欲
Chinese
to live; alive; living to live; alive; living; work; workmanship |
desire; longing; appetite desire; longing; appetite; wish | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (活欲) |
活 | 欲 | |
| alternative forms | 活要 | ||
Pronunciation
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): oa̍h-beh / oa̍h-berh
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oa̍h-beh
- Tâi-lô: ua̍h-beh
- Phofsit Daibuun: oaqbeq
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ua(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ beʔ³²/
- IPA (Taipei): /ua(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ beʔ³²/
- IPA (Xiamen, Kaohsiung): /ua(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ beʔ³²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oa̍h-berh
- Tâi-lô: ua̍h-berh
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ua(ʔ)²⁴⁻² bəʔ⁵/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
Adverb
活欲
- (Southern Min) simply; totally; nearly; almost
- (Mainland China Hokkien, used in exclamations) how; what; so; such
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 多麼 (“how; what; so; such”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Classical Chinese | 何等, 何其, 一何, 何哉, 何等也, 何則 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 多麼, 何等, 何其 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 多麼, 多 |
| Taiwan | 多麼, 多 | |
| Malaysia | 多 | |
| Singapore | 多麼, 多 | |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 多麼, 多 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 多 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 好, 多 |
| Wuhan | 幾, 幾樣, 好 | |
| Guilin | 好 | |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 多 |
| Hefei | 好 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 幾, 幾咁 |
| Hong Kong | 幾, 幾咁 | |
| Yangjiang | 幾 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 幾 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 幾 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 多麼, 多來 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 幾多 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 若夥, 若 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 偌, 偌爾仔, 活, 活欲 |
| Quanzhou | 偌, 活, 活欲 | |
| Zhangzhou | 偌, 偌爾仔, 偌仔爾, 活, 活欲 | |
| Taipei | 偌爾, 偌仔爾 | |
| Kaohsiung | 偌爾, 偌仔爾 | |
| Penang (Hokkien) | 偌 | |
| Singapore (Hokkien) | 偌 | |
| Manila (Hokkien) | 偌 | |
| Chaozhou | 若 | |
| Singapore (Teochew) | 若 | |
| Zhongshan Min | Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi) | 幾 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 多少, 幾化 |
| Suzhou | 幾化 | |
| Wenzhou | 幾倈, 幾恁 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 幾, 幾多, 好 |
| Shuangfeng | 幾, 好 | |