塞子

Chinese

		to stuff; to stop up; to squeeze in to stuff; to stop up; to squeeze in; strategic pass; piston; unenlightened; Serb (abbrev.); Serbian	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
simp. and trad. (塞子)		塞	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sāizi

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄞ ˙ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sak¹ zi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sāizi
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄞ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: saizi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: sai¹-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: sāi-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sai.tzy
    • Palladius: сайцзы (sajczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saɪ̯⁵⁵ d͡z̥z̩²/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sak¹ zi²
    • Yale: sāk jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sak⁷ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: seg¹ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐk̚⁵ t͡siː³⁵/

Noun

塞子

1. cork; plug

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 塞子 (“cork; plug”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		塞子
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	塞子
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	塞子
	Wanrong	塞兒
	Xi'an	塞塞兒
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	塞塞子
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	久子, 築子
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	築子
	Yangzhou	塞子
Gan	Lichuan	塞子, 塞兒
	Pingxiang	塞子
Hakka	Meixian	塞仔
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	塞仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	塞仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	塞仔
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	塞仔
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	塞子
Southern Min	Xiamen	窒仔
	Quanzhou	窒仔
	Zhangzhou	窒仔
	Tainan	栓仔 GT, 窒仔 GT
Xiang	Changsha	𡎺子
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)