咿唔

Chinese

		(onomat.)	hold in mouth; bite; (Cant.) no/not
simp. and trad. (咿唔)		咿	唔
alternative forms		伊吾

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīwú

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ ㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji¹ ng⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīwú
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ ㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yiwú
    • Wade–Giles: i¹-wu²
    • Yale: yī-wú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iwu
    • Palladius: иу (iu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵ u³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ji¹ ng⁴
    • Yale: yī ǹgh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji¹ ng⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi¹ ng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː⁵⁵ ŋ̍²¹/

Noun

咿唔

1. (literary) sound of recitation

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (咿唔):

• → Japanese: 咿唔(いご) (igo)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
咿	唔
い Hyōgai	ご Hyōgai
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [iɡo̞]

Noun

咿(い)唔(ご) • (igo) 

1. sound of reading aloud

   Synonym: 唔咿 (goi)

2. mumbling

References

• “咿唔”, in デジタル大辞泉‎^[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months