哭鬼

Chinese

		to cry; to weep	ghost; sly; crafty
trad. (哭鬼)		哭	鬼
simp. #(哭鬼)		哭	鬼

Pronunciation

• Gan (Wiktionary): 'kuh⁶ gui³
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): kao³ gui²

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• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: 'kuh⁶ gui³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˈkʰuʔ⁵ kui²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: kao³ gui²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khàu kúi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰau²¹³⁻⁵⁵ kui⁵²⁻²¹/

Noun

哭鬼

1. (Gan, Teochew) crybaby (someone who cries frequently)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 愛哭鬼 (“crybaby”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	哭巴精
	Taiwan	愛哭鬼
	Harbin	哭巴精
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	哭臉兒忙
Central Plains Mandarin	Xining	哭皮胎
Lanyin Mandarin	Lanzhou	哭皮胎
	Ürümqi	哭皮胎
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	哭兮狗兒
	Wuhan	好哭佬
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	哭尿包
Cantonese	Guangzhou	喊包, 喊手, 爛喊貓
	Hong Kong	喊包, 大喊十
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	哭包, 哭袋
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	喊包
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	哭包
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	爛哭星
	Hepu (Shatian)	爛哭王
	Beihai	哭星
	Beihai (Nankang)	爛哭
	Beihai (Yingpan)	爛哭王
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	喊包
Gan	Nanchang	哭鬼
	Pingxiang	哭屎巴
Hakka	Meixian	叫眵狗
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	哭包, 哭缽, 大哭包, 大哭王
	Hong Kong	叫包
	Senai (Huiyang)	叫包
Jin	Taiyuan	哭哭生
Northern Min	Jian'ou	哭死鬼
Southern Min	Manila (Hokkien)	愛吼仙
	Puning	哭包
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	哭鬼
Wu	Shanghai	哭鬼, 哭囡
	Danyang	哭皮皮, 哭皮佬佬
	Hangzhou	哭作貓兒
	Ningbo	哭作包
	Jinhua	貪哭鬼, 哭驢
Xiang	Changsha	哭臉巴
	Loudi	哭臉巴