矮細

Chinese

		short (not tall)	fine; minutely; thin fine; minutely; thin; slender
trad. (矮細)		矮	細
simp. (矮细)		矮	细

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): ai² sai³
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ái-se
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): óe-sòe / é-sè

(Teochew, Peng'im): oi² soi³

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ai² sai³
  - Yale: ái sai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ai² sai³
  - Guangdong Romanization: ei² sei³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɐi̯³⁵ sɐi̯³³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ái-se
  - Hakka Romanization System: ai^ˋ se
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ai³ se⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /ai̯³¹ se⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Taipei)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: óe-sòe
  - Tâi-lô: ué-suè
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oefsoex
  - IPA (Taipei): /ue⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sue¹¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ue⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sue²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /ue⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ sue⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: é-sè
  - Tâi-lô: é-sè
  - Phofsit Daibuun: efsex
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /e⁵³⁻⁴⁴ se²¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /e⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ se²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: oi² soi³
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ói sòi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /oi⁵²⁻³⁵ soi²¹³/

Adjective

矮細

(Cantonese, Hakka, Southern Min) short and small; undersized
- 1951, 《孔明献空城歌》下本, Hsinchu: 竹林書局:
  
  鄧芝人生恰矮細　原穿白甲戴銀盔 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
  邓芝人生恰矮细　原穿白甲戴银盔 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]
  Tēng Chi lâng siⁿ khah óe-sòe, goân chhēng pe̍h kah tì gûn khoe [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 矮小 (“(of stature) short and small”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		矮小
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	矮小
Cantonese	Hong Kong	矮細
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	矮細
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	矮細
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	矮細
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	矮細
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	矮細
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	矮細
Southern Min	Xiamen	矮細, 矮股, 細箍把, 細粒子
	Quanzhou	矮細, 矮股觸, 細箍把, 細粒子
	Zhangzhou	矮細, 矮股, 細粒子
	Tainan	矮股, 細粒子
	Jieyang	矮細