肉刺

Chinese

		meat; flesh	thorn; sting; prick thorn; sting; prick; pierce; stab; thrust; assassinate; murder
simp. and trad. (肉刺)		肉	刺

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ròucì

(Zhuyin): ㄖㄡˋ ㄘˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): juk⁶ cek³ / juk⁶ ci³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bah-chhì

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ròucì
  - Zhuyin: ㄖㄡˋ ㄘˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ròucìh
  - Wade–Giles: jou⁴-tzʻŭ⁴
  - Yale: ròu-tsz̀
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rowtsyh
  - Palladius: жоуцы (žoucy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐoʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰz̩⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)⁺
  - Jyutping: juk⁶ cek³ / juk⁶ ci³
  - Yale: yuhk chek / yuhk chi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁹ tsek⁸ / juk⁹ tsi³
  - Guangdong Romanization: yug⁶ cég³ / yug⁶ qi³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚² t͡sʰɛːk̚³/, /jʊk̚² t͡sʰiː³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bah-chhì
  - Tâi-lô: bah-tshì
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bahchix
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ t͡sʰi²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ba(ʔ)⁵ t͡sʰi⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ t͡sʰi²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ t͡sʰi¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ t͡sʰi²¹/

Noun

肉刺

hangnail (protruding piece of nail tissue or skin near base of fingernail or toenail)
Synonyms: 倒刺 (dàocì); see also Thesaurus:手倒刺
whitlow (infection near or under the cuticle of a fingernail or toenail)
Synonym: 瘭 (biāo)

Japanese

Etymology

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ma̠me̞]

Noun

肉刺(まめ) • (mame)

blister, corn

References

“〈肉刺〉”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025