財氣

Chinese

		money; wealth; riches money; wealth; riches; property; valuables	gas; air; smell gas; air; smell; weather; vital breath; to make someone angry; to get angry; to be enraged
trad. (財氣)		財	氣
simp. (财气)		财	气

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cáiqì

(Zhuyin): ㄘㄞˊ ㄑㄧˋ
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zai² ki⁴
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): châi-khì

(Teochew, Peng'im): cai⁵ ki³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: cáiqì
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄞˊ ㄑㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cáicì
  - Wade–Giles: tsʻai²-chʻi⁴
  - Yale: tsái-chì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsairchih
  - Palladius: цайци (cajci)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaɪ̯³⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zai² ki⁴ [Phonetic: zai¹ ki⁴]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: cái-ki̍
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sai¹³⁻⁵⁵ kʰi⁴²/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zai² ki⁴ [Phonetic: zai¹ ki⁴]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sai²⁴⁻⁵⁵ kʰi⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: châi-khì
  - Tâi-lô: tsâi-khì
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zai'qix
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sai¹³⁻²² kʰi²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sai²⁴⁻²² kʰi⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sai²⁴⁻²² kʰi²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: cai⁵ ki³
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshâi khì
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰai⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kʰi²¹³/

Noun

財氣

luck in making money; luck for wealth
(Puxian Min) talent to run a business

Synonyms

(luck in making money):

財運／财运 (cáiyùn)

References

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), “财气”, 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 565.