落風

Chinese

		to fall; to drop (behind); leave behind	wind; news; style wind; news; style; custom; manner
trad. (落風)		落	風
simp. (落风)		落	风

Pronunciation

Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): lao⁴ buei¹ / lao⁴ buinn¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): làu-hong / làu-hoang

Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: lao⁴ buei¹ [Phonetic: lao¹ uei¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: la̍u-boiⁿ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lau⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(p-)uei⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: lao⁴ buinn¹ [Phonetic: lao¹ mui¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lau⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(p-)mui⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: làu-hong
  - Tâi-lô: làu-hong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lao'hofng
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lau²¹⁻⁴¹ hɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /lau²¹⁻⁵³ hɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Singapore): /lau²¹⁻⁴² hɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /lau¹¹⁻⁵³ hɔŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Philippines)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: làu-hoang
  - Tâi-lô: làu-huang
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lao'hoafng
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Philippines): /lau⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ huaŋ³³/

Verb

落風

(Southern Min) to leak air or gas
(Mainland China and Taiwanese Hokkien) to have unclear pronunciation due to teeth being unaligned or missing
(Singapore Hokkien, of food, especially biscuits) to become stale or soft

Synonyms

(to leak gas): 漏氣／漏气 (lòuqì), 洩氣／泄气 (xièqì); (Hokkien) 落氣／落气, 走風／走风

Noun

落風

(Puxian Min) favorable wind; tail wind

Synonyms

(favorable wind): 順風／顺风 (shùnfēng)

Further reading

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “落风”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 350.
李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “17 顺风（跟行进方向相同的风）”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 292.