起雞母皮

Chinese

		to rise; to raise; to get up	goosebumps
trad. (起雞母皮/起鷄母皮)		起	雞母皮/鷄母皮
simp. (起鸡母皮)		起	鸡母皮

Pronunciation

Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ki³ ge¹ bo³ puei²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khí-ke-bó-phôe / khí-koe-bú-phê

Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ki³ ge¹ bo³ puei² [Phonetic: ki⁵ e⁵ o² puei²]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: kî-ga̤-beô-pói
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰi⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ ^(k-)e⁵³³⁻¹¹ ^(p-)o⁴⁵³⁻¹³ pʰuei¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ki³ ge¹ bo³ puei² [Phonetic: ki⁵ e⁵ wo¹ wuei²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰi³³²⁻²¹ ^(k-)e⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ ^(p-)βo³³²⁻⁵⁵ ^(pʰ-)βuei²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khí-ke-bó-phôe
  - Tâi-lô: khí-ke-bó-phuê
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qy'ke'boyphoee
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ke⁴⁴⁻³³ bɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ pʰue²³/
- (Hokkien: Taipei)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khí-koe-bú-phê
  - Tâi-lô: khí-kue-bú-phê
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qy'koe'bwphee
  - IPA (Taipei): /kʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kue⁴⁴⁻³³ bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ pʰe²⁴/

Verb

起⫽雞母皮 (verb-object)

(Hokkien, Puxian Min) to have goosebumps

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 起雞皮疙瘩 (“to have goosebumps”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		起雞皮疙瘩
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	起雞皮疙瘩
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	起雞皮疙瘩
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	起雞皮疙瘩
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	起雞皮疙瘩兒
	Wanrong	出雞兒疙瘩
	Xi'an	起雞皮疙瘩子
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	起雞皮疙瘩
	Lanzhou	起雞皮疙瘩
	Ürümqi	起雞皮疙瘩
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	起雞皮疙瘩, 起雞皮
	Guiyang	起雞皮疙瘩
	Liuzhou	起雞肉皮
	Nanning (Wuming)	肉毛管起, 肉酸
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	起雞皮疙瘩
Cantonese	Guangzhou	起雞皮, 起雞皮皺, 毛管戙, 毛管鬆
	Hong Kong	起雞皮, 毛管戙
	Taishan	起雞皮米, 雞皮米聳, 雞皮米粟
	Dongguan	起雞皮
Gan	Pingxiang	起雞婆皮, 起寒毛子
Hakka	Meixian	起雞嫲皮
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	起寒毛菇, 起雞嫲皮
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	起寒毛菇, 起雞嫲皮
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	起寒毛菇, 雞嫲皮膨膨起
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	起雞嫲皮, 雞嫲皮膨膨起
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	起寒毛菇, 起雞嫲皮
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	起雞嫲皮
Huizhou	Jixi	毛孔合合豎
Jin	Taiyuan	起雞皮疙瘩
Jin	Xinzhou	發疙瘩
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	毛管鬆去, 毛鬆管制
Southern Min	Tainan	起雞母皮
	Zhangping (Yongfu)	起雞母皮
	Jieyang	雞母皮浮, 浮雞母皮
	Haikou	起雞皮
Puxian Min	Putian	起雞母皮, 上雞肉毹
	Putian (Donghai, Chengxiang)	上雞祖
	Xianyou	起雞母皮, 上雞芒毹
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	起肉毛管
Wu	Shanghai (Chongming)	筋肉痱子走來
	Ningbo	起雞皮疙瘩
	Wenzhou	毛管隑起
	Jinhua	寒毛管豎挈來
Xiang	Changsha	起雞皮它
Xiang	Loudi	起雞皮痆

References

“起雞母皮”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.