丫鬟

Chinese

		fork; bifurcation	a knot of hair on top of head
simp. and trad. (丫鬟)		丫	鬟
alternative forms		丫環／丫环 丫嬛 鴉鬟／鸦鬟

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yāhuan

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄚ ˙ㄏㄨㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): aa¹ waan⁴
• Eastern Min (BUC): ă-kuàng
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): a-hoân

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yāhuan
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄚ ˙ㄏㄨㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yahuån
    • Wade–Giles: ya¹-huan⁵
    • Yale: yā-hwan
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ia.huan
    • Palladius: яхуань (jaxuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jä⁵⁵ xu̯än²/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: aa¹ waan⁴
    • Yale: ā wàahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: aa¹ waan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: a¹ wan⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aː⁵⁵ waːn²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ă-kuàng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /a⁵⁵ ^(kʰ-)uaŋ⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: a-hoân
    • Tâi-lô: a-huân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: a'hoaan
    • IPA (Xiamen): /a⁴⁴⁻²² huan²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /a³³ huan²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /a⁴⁴⁻²² huan¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /a⁴⁴⁻³³ huan²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /a⁴⁴⁻³³ huan²³/

Noun

丫鬟

1. (literary, literally) fork-shaped bun (of women)
2. (historical) slave-girl; servant girl; maidservant

Synonyms

• (slave-girl):

• 丫頭／丫头 (yātou)
• 使女 (shǐnǚ)
• 女侍 (nǚshì)
• 女奴 (nǚnú)
• 女婢 (nǚbì)
• 女招待 (nǚzhāodài)
• 妮子 (nīzi) (obsolete)
• 婢女 (bìnǚ)
• 小妮子 (xiǎonīzi) (obsolete)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 婢女 (“servant girl”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		婢
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		婢女, 女婢, 丫鬟, 丫頭, 使女
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	丫鬟, 丫鬟兒, 丫頭子
	Harbin	丫鬟
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	支使丫頭
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	丫鬟兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	丫頭
	Wanrong	丫鬟
	Xi'an	丫頭子
	Xining	丫鬟, 丫頭
	Xuzhou	使用丫頭子, 使用丫頭
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	使喚丫頭, 使喚
	Lanzhou	丫鬟, 丫頭
	Ürümqi	使喚丫頭, 丫鬟
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	丫頭兒, 丫頭子, 丫鬟
	Wuhan	丫頭
	Guiyang	丫頭
	Liuzhou	丫頭, 妹崽
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	丫頭兒, 小丫頭兒
	Yangzhou	丫頭
Cantonese	Guangzhou	妹仔
	Hong Kong	妹仔
	Dongguan	妹仔
Gan	Nanchang	丫頭
	Lichuan	姨婆
	Pingxiang	丫鬟
Hakka	Meixian	細老婢, 老婢仔
	Yudu	婢婆
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	使女
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	使婢
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	使女
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	使女
Huizhou	Jixi	丫頭
Jin	Taiyuan	蠻妮子, 妮子
	Xinzhou	丫花
Northern Min	Jian'ou	奶婆
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	丫頭, 丫鬟, 丫頭囝, 義女
Southern Min	Xiamen	查某𡢃仔, 查某𡢃, 𡢃婢
	Quanzhou	查某𡢃, 𡢃婢
	Zhangzhou	查某𡢃仔, 查某𡢃, 𡢃婢, 撽作
	Taipei	查某𡢃
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	查某𡢃仔
	Kaohsiung	查某𡢃
	Yilan	查某𡢃
	Changhua (Lukang)	查某𡢃
	Taichung	查某𡢃仔
	Tainan	查某𡢃仔
	Hsinchu	查某𡢃仔
	Kinmen	娘𡢃
	Penghu (Magong)	查某𡢃
	Manila (Hokkien)	番仔婆, 查某𡢃, 番婆
	Longyan	跤作, 跤作仔
	Shantou	赤跤囝, 花囝
	Leizhou	妹囝
	Haikou	儂囝
Zhongshan Min	Sanxiang	妹囝
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	妹崽, 丫鬟
Wu	Shanghai	丫頭, 使女
	Suzhou	丫頭
	Danyang	丫鬟
	Hangzhou	丫頭
	Ningbo	丫頭, 丫頭屄
	Wenzhou	細奶兒, 丫頭, 丫鬟
	Jinhua	囡女
Xiang	Changsha	丫鬟, 丫頭