母夜叉

Chinese

		female; mother	yaksha; a ferocious and hideous looking person
simp. and trad. (母夜叉)		母	夜叉

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mǔyèchā

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˇ ㄧㄝˋ ㄔㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁵ je⁶ caa¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mǔyèchā
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˇ ㄧㄝˋ ㄔㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mǔyècha
  - Wade–Giles: mu³-yeh⁴-chʻa¹
  - Yale: mǔ-yè-chā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muuyehcha
  - Palladius: муеча (muječa)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu²¹⁴⁻²¹ jɛ⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰä⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: mou⁵ je⁶ caa¹
  - Yale: móuh yeh chā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁵ je⁶ tsaa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: mou⁵ yé⁶ ca¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯¹³ jɛː²² t͡sʰaː⁵⁵/

Noun

母夜叉

ferocious and hideous woman

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 潑婦 (“shrew; vixen; termagant”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		潑婦, 悍婦, 惡婦, 母老虎, 雌老虎
Mandarin	Beijing	母老虎, 母哈赤
	Taiwan	母老虎
	Yantai (Muping)	母老虎
	Jinan	母老虎
	Luoyang	母老虎
	Wanrong	母老虎
	Xi'an	潑婦, 母老虎
	Yinchuan	母老虎
	Lanzhou	母老虎
	Xining	母老虎
	Ürümqi	母老虎
	Wuhan	母老虎
	Chengdu	母老虎
	Guiyang	母老虎
	Liuzhou	母老虎, 母夜叉
	Xuzhou	母老虎
	Yangzhou	母老虎
	Nanjing	母老虎
Cantonese	Guangzhou	惡婆, 倀雞婆, 老虎乸, 霸巷雞乸, 霸王雞乸
	Hong Kong	倀雞婆, 老虎乸, 惡雞乸, 霸王雞乸
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	老虎乸
	Macau	老虎乸
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	老虎乸
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	老虎乸
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	老虎乸
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	老虎乸
	Foshan	老虎乸
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	老虎乸
	Foshan (Shunde)	老虎乸
	Foshan (Sanshui)	老虎乸
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	老虎乸
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	老虎乸
	Zhuhai (Qianshan)	老虎乸
	Zhuhai (Doumen, Shangheng Tanka)	老虎乸
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	老虎乸
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	老虎乸
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	老虎乸
	Taishan	老虎乸
	Kaiping (Chikan)	老虎乸
	Enping (Niujiang)	老虎乸
	Heshan (Yayao)	老虎乸
	Dongguan	老虎乸, 惡雞乸, 霸王雞乸
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	老虎乸
Gan	Nanchang	潑婦
Gan	Pingxiang	潑婦, 母老虎
Hakka	Meixian	兇貨嫲, 爛潑婦, 老虎嫲
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	老虎乸, 惡雞乸
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	熊家嫲, 老虎嫲
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	老虎嫲
	Zhongshan (Wuguishan)	惡雞嫲
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	惡雞嫲
	Conghua (Lütian)	霸巷雞嫲
	Yudu	老虎婆
Huizhou	Jixi	潑婦
Jin	Taiyuan	母老虎
Jin	Xinzhou	母老虎
Northern Min	Jian'ou	老虎嫲
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	老虎母
Southern Min	Xiamen	赤查某, 赤婆, 痟狗母, 虎母, 虎伯母, 虎伯姆, 虎豹姆
	Quanzhou	赤查某, 痟狗母, 虎母
	Jinjiang	赤查某
	Zhangzhou	赤查某, 赤馬鮫, 虎母, 虎伯母
	Tainan	潑婦, 赤查某, 虎豹母, 虎姑婆
	Manila (Hokkien)	赤查某
	Shantou	惡婆
	Jieyang	老虎婆
	Leizhou	虎母
	Haikou	虎母
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	老虎母
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	母老虎
Wu	Shanghai	雌老虎
	Shanghai (Chongming)	雌老虎, 母老虎
	Suzhou	雌老虎
	Danyang	老虎婆
	Hangzhou	雌老虎
	Ningbo	潑婦, 雌老虎
	Jinhua	潑婦, 雌老虎
Xiang	Changsha	母老虎

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