小舌頭

小舌頭

Chinese

		small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young	tongue; tip of a tongue
trad. (小舌頭)		小	舌頭
simp. (小舌头)		小	舌头

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): xiǎoshétou

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄕㄜˊ ˙ㄊㄡ

  (Chengdu, SP): xiao³ se² tou²

• Wu (Wiktionary): xiau zeq deu (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎoshétou
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄕㄜˊ ˙ㄊㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎoshéto̊u
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao³-shê²-tʻou⁵
    • Yale: syǎu-shé-tou
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheausher.tou
    • Palladius: сяошэтоу (sjaošɛtou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕjɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ ʂɤ³⁵ tʰoʊ̯³/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (小舌頭兒／小舌头儿)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎoshétour
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄕㄜˊ ˙ㄊㄡㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎoshéto̊ur
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao³-shê²-tʻourh⁵
    • Yale: syǎu-shé-tour
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheausher.toul
    • Palladius: сяошэтоур (sjaošɛtour)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕjɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ ʂɤ³⁵ tʰɤʊ̯ɻʷ³/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: xiao³ se² tou²
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: xiaosetou
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiau⁵³ sɛ²¹ tʰəu²¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: xiau zeq deu (T2)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiɔ³³ z̥əʔ⁵⁵ d̥ɜ²¹/

Noun

小舌頭

1. (dialectal Mandarin, Gan, Wu) uvula (appendage that hangs from the palate)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 小舌 (“uvula”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		懸壅垂
Mandarin	Beijing	小舌兒, 小舌頭兒
	Taiwan	小舌
	Yantai (Muping)	小舌頭兒
	Jinan	小舌頭
	Luoyang	小舌頭兒
	Lanzhou	咽牙子
	Xining	咽舌子
	Ürümqi	咽舌子
	Chengdu	小舌頭兒, 小舌頭
	Guiyang	小舌頭
	Guilin	小舌
	Liuzhou	小舌頭
	Yangzhou	小舌頭
	Nanjing	小舌頭
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	咽舌子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	吊鐘, 喉嚨椗
	Hong Kong	吊鐘, 喉嚨椗
	Dongguan	吊鐘
	Nanning	喉嚨椗
	Wuzhou	吊鐘
	Yulin	細舌頭
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	喉嚨椗
Gan	Pingxiang	小舌頭, 小舌, 小舌子
Hakka	Meixian	頂中仔, 吊鐘
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	頂中仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	頂中仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	頂中仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	頂中
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	頂中仔
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	喉嗹蒂
Huizhou	Jixi	喉嚨花
Min Dong	Fuzhou	舌囝, 喙舌囝
Min Nan	Xiamen	嚨喉鐘, 嚨喉鐘仔, 嚨喉奶仔, 喉鐘
	Zhangzhou	嚨喉蒂仔
	Taipei	嚨喉蒂仔
	Kaohsiung	嚨喉蒂仔
	Yilan	嚨喉蒂仔
	Changhua (Lukang)	嚨喉奶仔
	Taichung	嚨喉蒂仔
	Taichung (Wuqi)	嚨喉奶仔
	Tainan	嚨喉鐘
	Taitung	嚨喉奶仔
	Hsinchu	嚨喉奶仔
	Penghu (Magong)	嚨喉鐘
	Shantou	小舌
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	細脷
Northern Pinghua	Guilin (Dahe)	小舌子
Wu	Shanghai	小舌頭
	Suzhou	小舌頭
	Danyang	喉嚨花, 喉嚨鐘, 小舌頭
	Ningbo	小舌頭