喘氣

喘氣

See also: 喘气

Chinese

		to gasp; to pant; asthma	gas; air; smell gas; air; smell; weather; vital breath; to make sb. angry; to get angry; to be enraged
trad. (喘氣)		喘	氣
simp. (喘气)		喘	气
alternative forms		喘喟 (Min Nan)
anagram		氣喘／气喘

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chuǎnqì

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄢˇ ㄑㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun² hei³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhón-hi
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhoán-khùi

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cuêng² kui³ / cuang² kui³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chuǎnqì
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄢˇ ㄑㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chuǎncì
    • Wade–Giles: chʻuan³-chʻi⁴
    • Yale: chwǎn-chì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: choanchih
    • Palladius: чуаньци (čuanʹci)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰwän²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chuǎnqìr
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄢˇ ㄑㄧˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chuǎncìr
    • Wade–Giles: chʻuan³-chʻirh⁴
    • Yale: chwǎn-chìr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: choanchiell
    • Palladius: чуаньцир (čuanʹcir)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰwän²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ t͡ɕʰiə̯ɻ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyun² hei³
    • Yale: chyún hei
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn² hei³
    • Guangdong Romanization: qun² héi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰyːn³⁵ hei̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhón-hi
    • Hakka Romanization System: con` hi
    • Hagfa Pinyim: con³ hi⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰon³¹ hi⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhoán-khùi
    • Tâi-lô: tshuán-khuì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhoafnquix
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰuan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kʰui²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰuan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kʰui⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰuan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kʰui²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰuan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kʰui¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰuan⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kʰui²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cuêng² kui³ / cuang² kui³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshuéng khùi / tshuáng khùi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰueŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ kʰui²¹³/, /t͡sʰuaŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ kʰui²¹³/

Verb

喘氣

1. to pant; to gasp; to breathe heavily

   我出點力氣就覺得喘氣費勁。 [MSC, trad.]
   我出点力气就觉得喘气费劲。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ chū diǎn lìqi jiù juéde chuǎnqì fèijìn. [Pinyin]

   I feel breathless with the slightest effort.

2. to take a breather
3. (Hokkien) to breathe

Synonyms

• (to take a breather):

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Synonyms of 喘氣

休息 (xiūxi) 休憩 (xiūqì) (literary) 停歇 (tíngxiē) 安息 (ānxī) 憩息 (qìxī) (literary) 放尞 (Taiwanese Hakka)

敨 (tǒu) (Cantonese, Hakka) 歇 (xiē) 歇息 (xiēxi) 停睏／停困 (Taiwanese Hokkien) 歇睏／歇困 (Hakka, Min Nan)

• (to breathe):

Dialectal synonyms of 呼吸 (“to breathe”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		呼吸
Mandarin	Taiwan	呼吸
	Singapore	呼吸
Cantonese	Guangzhou	敨氣
	Hong Kong	敨氣
	Taishan	敨氣
	Singapore (Guangfu)	敨氣
Hakka	Meixian	敨氣
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	敨氣
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	敨氣
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	敨氣
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	敨氣
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	敨氣
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	敨氣
Min Bei	Jian'ou	取氣
Min Nan	Xiamen	喘氣
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	喘氣
	Quanzhou	喘氣
	Zhangzhou	喘氣
	Tainan	喘氣
	Penang (Hokkien)	喘氣
	Singapore (Hokkien)	喘氣
	Manila (Hokkien)	喘氣, 呼吸
	Jieyang	敨氣
	Singapore (Teochew)	喘氣

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呼吸 (hūxī) 吸氣／吸气 (xīqì) (to inhale) 呼氣／呼气 (hūqì) (to exhale)

嗍氣／嗍气 (Taishanese, to inhale) 透氣／透气 (tòuqì) (to breathe in fresh air)

References

• “Entry #8236”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.