插手
Chinese
insert; stick in; pierce insert; stick in; pierce; to take part in; to interfere; to interpose |
hand; convenient; ‑er | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (插手) | 插 | 手 | |
| simp. #(插手) | 插 | 手 | |
| Literally: “insert one's hand”. | |||
Pronunciation 1
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): caap3 sau2
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): cah6 ciu3
- Southern Min
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
- Hanyu Pinyin: chāshǒu
- Zhuyin: ㄔㄚ ㄕㄡˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: chashǒu
- Wade–Giles: chʻa1-shou3
- Yale: chā-shǒu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chashoou
- Palladius: чашоу (čašou)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂʰä⁵⁵ ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- Homophones:
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插手
- (Standard Chinese)
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)+
- Jyutping: caap3 sau2
- Yale: chaap sáu
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsaap8 sau2
- Guangdong Romanization: cab3 seo2
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰaːp̚³ sɐu̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)+
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: cah6 ciu3 [Phonetic: cah7 ciu3]
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: chah-chiû
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰaʔ²¹⁻⁴⁵ t͡sʰiu⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: cah6 ciu3 [Phonetic: cah7 ciu3]
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰaʔ²⁻⁴ t͡sʰiu³³²/
- (Putian)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, variant in Taiwan)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhah-chhiú
- Tâi-lô: tshah-tshiú
- Phofsit Daibuun: zhahchiuo
- IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /t͡sʰa(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ t͡sʰiu⁵³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰa(ʔ)⁵ t͡sʰiu⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰa(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ t͡sʰiu⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhap-chhiú
- Tâi-lô: tshap-tshiú
- Phofsit Daibuun: zhapchiuo
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰap̚⁵⁻²⁴ t͡sʰiu⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰap̚³²⁻⁵ t͡sʰiu⁵³/
- IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /t͡sʰap̚³²⁻⁴ t͡sʰiu⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰap̚³²⁻⁴ t͡sʰiu⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, variant in Taiwan)
Note:
- chhah-chhiú - “to poke one's nose into; to put one's hand in”;
- chhap-chhiú - “to take part (Mainland China); to poke one's nose into (Taiwan)”.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: cah4 ciu2
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshah tshiú
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰaʔ²⁻⁴ t͡sʰiu⁵²⁻²¹/
Verb
插⫽手 (verb-object)
- to poke one's nose into; to meddle in
- 現在幾十隻手插到地方，使地方的事情不好辦。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1956, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論十大關係》 (On the Ten Major Relationships), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
- Xiànzài jǐshí zhī shǒu chā dào dìfāng, shǐ dìfāng de shìqíng bù hǎo bàn. [Pinyin]
- At present scores of hands are reaching out to the localities, making things difficult for them.
现在几十只手插到地方，使地方的事情不好办。 [MSC, simp.]
- to take part; to lend a hand
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to put one's hand in (one's pocket, muff, etc.)
Synonyms
- (to meddle in):
- (to take part):
- 交插 (Hokkien)
- 加入 (jiārù)
- 參入 / 参入 (cānrù)
- 參加 / 参加 (cānjiā)
- 參插 / 参插 (Min Nan)
- 參與 / 参与
- 廁身 / 厕身 (cèshēn) (humble)
- 插腳 / 插脚 (chājiǎo) (chiefly something one should not participate in)
- 插足 (chāzú) (figurative, usually derogatory)
- 插身 (chāshēn) (figurative)
- 攏場 / 拢场 (long3chan2) (Xiang)
- 攏邊 / 拢边 (long3 bienn1) (Xiang)
- 置身 (zhìshēn)
- 處身 / 处身 (chǔshēn) (formal)
- 鬥插 / 斗插 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
- 鬥插手 / 斗插手 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
Related terms
- 插口 (chākǒu)
Pronunciation 2
- Cantonese
- Southern Min (Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): ca7 qiu2
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)+
- Jyutping: caap3 sau2
- Yale: chaap sáu
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsaap8 sau2
- Guangdong Romanization: cab3 seo2
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰaːp̚³ sɐu̯³⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: cap4 siu2
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰap̚²¹ siu⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)+
- Southern Min
- (Leizhou)
- Leizhou Pinyin: ca7 qiu2
- Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰa⁵⁵ t͡sʰiu³¹/
- (Leizhou)
Noun
插手
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 扒手 (“pickpocket”) [map]
References
- 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 44.