燈謎

Chinese

		lamp; light	riddle
trad. (燈謎)		燈	謎
simp. (灯谜)		灯	谜

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dēngmí

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄥㄇㄧˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dang¹ mai⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tên-mì
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): teng-bê

(Teochew, Peng'im): dêng¹ mi⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dēngmí
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄥㄇㄧˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dengmí
  - Wade–Giles: têng¹-mi²
  - Yale: dēng-mí
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dengmi
  - Palladius: дэнми (dɛnmi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɤŋ⁵⁵ mi³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: dang¹ mai⁴
  - Yale: dāng màih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dang¹ mai⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: deng¹ mei⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɐŋ⁵⁵ mɐi̯²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tên-mì
  - Hakka Romanization System: den^ˊ mi^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: den¹ mi²
  - Sinological IPA: /ten²⁴ mi¹¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: teng-bê
  - Tâi-lô: ting-bê
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dengbee
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² be²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɪŋ³³ be²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² be¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ be²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ be²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: dêng¹ mi⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: teng mĭ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /teŋ³³⁻²³ mi³⁵/

Noun

燈謎

“lantern riddle” (traditional game during the Lantern Festival, in which riddles are pasted on hanging lanterns)
猜燈謎／猜灯谜 ― cāi dēngmí ― to guess lantern riddles

Synonyms

(Hokkien) 燈猜／灯猜

Derived terms

打燈謎 / 打灯谜