皮包骨
Chinese
| leather; skin; fur | to cover; to wrap; to hold to cover; to wrap; to hold; to include; to take charge of; package; wrapper; container; bag; to hold or embrace; bundle; packet; to contract (to or for) |
bone | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (皮包骨) | 皮 | 包 | 骨 | |
| simp. #(皮包骨) | 皮 | 包 | 骨 | |
| Literally: “skin covering bones”. | ||||
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): pei4 baau1 gwat1
- Hakka
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phôe-pau-kut / phê-pau-kut
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: píbāogǔ
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˊ ㄅㄠ ㄍㄨˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: píbaogǔ
- Wade–Giles: pʻi2-pao1-ku3
- Yale: pí-bāu-gǔ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyibauguu
- Palladius: пибаогу (pibaogu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰi³⁵ pɑʊ̯⁵⁵ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: pei4 baau1 gwat1
- Yale: pèih bāau gwāt
- Cantonese Pinyin: pei4 baau1 gwat7
- Guangdong Romanization: péi4 bao1 gued1
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰei̯²¹ paːu̯⁵⁵ kʷɐt̚⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phì-pâu-kut
- Hakka Romanization System: piˇ bauˊ gudˋ
- Hagfa Pinyim: pi2 bau1 gud5
- Sinological IPA: /pʰi¹¹ pau̯²⁴ kut̚²/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
- Hakka Romanization System: pi bauˋ gud
- Sinological IPA: /pʰi⁵⁵ pau⁵³ kut⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phôe-pau-kut
- Tâi-lô: phuê-pau-kut
- Phofsit Daibuun: phoe'pau'kud
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰue²³⁻³³ pau⁴⁴⁻³³ kut̚³²/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phê-pau-kut
- Tâi-lô: phê-pau-kut
- Phofsit Daibuun: phe'pau'kud
- IPA (Taipei): /pʰe²⁴⁻¹¹ pau⁴⁴⁻³³ kut̚³²/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
Phrase
皮包骨
- (figurative) to be emaciated; to be extremely skinny; to be skin and bones; to be a bag of bones
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 皮包骨 (“to be skin and bones; to be a bag of bones”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 皮包骨, 皮包骨頭 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 皮包骨 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 皮黃骨瘦, 皮包骨 |
| Hong Kong | 皮包骨 | |
| Hakka | Meixian | 黃皮瘦骨, 皮包骨 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 皮包骨 | |
| Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 皮包骨 | |
| Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 皮包骨 | |
| Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 皮包骨 | |
| Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 皮包骨 | |
| Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 皮包骨 | |
| Southern Min | Shantou | 骨髂髂 |