西字頭

Chinese

		west	letter; symbol; character letter; symbol; character; word	head; (noun suffix)
trad. (西字頭)		西	字	頭
simp. (西字头)		西	字	头

Examples
要 (yāo) (覀女, "to want") 票 (piào) (覀示, "ticket")

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xīzìtóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ ㄗˋ ㄊㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sai¹ zi⁶ tau⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): se-jī-thâu / se-lī-thâu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xīzìtóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ ㄗˋ ㄊㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sizìhtóu
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹-tzŭ⁴-tʻou²
    • Yale: syī-dz̀-tóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shitzyhtour
    • Palladius: сицзытоу (siczytou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵ t͡sz̩⁵¹ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sai¹ zi⁶ tau⁴
    • Yale: sāi jih tàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sai¹ dzi⁶ tau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sei¹ ji⁶ teo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯⁵⁵ t͡siː²² tʰɐu̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: se-jī-thâu
    • Tâi-lô: se-jī-thâu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sejixtaau
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /se⁴⁴⁻³³ zi³³⁻²¹ tʰau²³/
  • (Hokkien: Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: se-lī-thâu
    • Tâi-lô: se-lī-thâu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: selixtaau
    • IPA (Taipei): /se⁴⁴⁻³³ li³³⁻¹¹ tʰau²⁴/

Noun

西字頭

1. The Chinese character component 覀.

Synonyms

• 要字頭／要字头

References

• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “西字頭”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC