散仔

散仔

Chinese

		adjourn; scatter; leisurely adjourn; scatter; leisurely; loosen; powdered medicine; to scatter; to come loose	minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility
trad. (散仔)		散	仔
simp. #(散仔)		散	仔

Pronunciation

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou, Jyutping): saan² zai²

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): lhan² doi²

• Min Nan (POJ): sàn-á

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: saan² zai²
    • Yale: sáan jái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saan² dzai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: san² zei²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːn³⁵ t͡sɐi̯³⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: lhan² doi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬan⁵⁵ tᵘɔi⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sàn-á
    • Tâi-lô: sàn-á
    • Phofsit Daibuun: safn'ar
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /san²¹⁻⁵³ a⁵³/

Noun

散仔

1. (Cantonese) temporary worker; low-level member (of a gang or an organization)
2. (Siyi Cantonese) (young) bachelor
3. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) pauper; poor wretch; penniless good-for-nothing

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 單身漢 (“bachelor”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		單身漢
Mandarin	Beijing	光棍兒, 光棍兒光, 鰥棍兒
	Taiwan	單身漢
	Harbin	光棍兒, 跑腿子, 光桿子
	Yantai (Muping)	光棍兒, 光棍子, 光漢
	Jinan	光棍兒, 光棍子
	Luoyang	光棍兒, 光棍兒漢兒
	Wanrong	光棍兒
	Xi'an	光棍兒
	Yinchuan	光棍
	Xining	光棍
	Ürümqi	光棍兒
	Wuhan	寡漢條, 光棍
	Chengdu	單身漢兒, 光棍, 光棍兒, 光身漢
	Guiyang	單身漢
	Liuzhou	寡佬, 寡公, 光棍, 單身寡佬
	Xuzhou	光棍漢, 光棍兒漢, 單身漢
	Yangzhou	光棍條子
	Nanjing	單身漢, 光棍
Cantonese	Guangzhou	寡仔, 單身寡仔, 單身寡佬
	Hong Kong	寡佬, 單身寡佬, 王老五
	Taishan	寡佬, 散仔
	Kaiping (Chikan)	寡佬, 散仔
	Dongguan	單身寡佬, 光棍佬
Gan	Pingxiang	單身人
Hakka	Meixian	單鳥哥, 單隻阿哥
	Yudu	光棍
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	單身哥仔, 單身哥
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	單身哥仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	單身哥仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	單身哥
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	單身哥仔
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	羅漢腳
Jin	Taiyuan	光棍, 光棍漢
	Xinzhou	光棍
Min Bei	Jian'ou	光棍
Min Dong	Fuzhou	單身哥
Min Nan	Xiamen	十一叔, 十一哥
	Quanzhou	十一叔
	Zhangzhou	十一叔
	Taipei	十一哥, 羅漢跤仔
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	孤𣮈的, 羅漢跤
	Kaohsiung	十一哥, 羅漢跤仔, 獨身仔
	Yilan	羅漢跤仔, 獨身仔
	Changhua (Lukang)	十一哥, 羅漢跤仔
	Taichung	十一哥, 羅漢跤仔
	Tainan	十一哥, 羅漢跤仔, 獨身仔
	Hsinchu	羅漢跤
	Kinmen	十一哥, 十一叔, 孤身
	Penghu (Magong)	十一哥, 羅漢跤
	Shantou	單身漢
	Jieyang	單身囝
	Leizhou	單身漢
	Haikou	光棍
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	單身漢, 光棍 derogatory, 光棍兒 derogatory
Wu	Shanghai	單身漢, 光棍, 獨腳伙
	Danyang	單身漢, 光棍條子, 光棍
	Hangzhou	光棍頭
	Ningbo	光棍, 光棍老倌
	Jinhua	光棍, 禿鐵兒, 光棍禿鐵兒 derogatory
	Jinhua (Tangxi)	光棍邋遢兒 derogatory
Xiang	Changsha	單身漢, 光褲帶
	Loudi	光棍

• (pauper): 窮光蛋／穷光蛋 (qióngguāngdàn); (Min Nan) 阿散仔

Derived terms

散仔館／散仔馆