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物代

物代

Chinese

thing; object; matter
 
substitute; replace; generation; dynasty; geological era; era; age; period
simp. and trad.
(物代)

Adverb

物代

  1. (Min Nan, chiefly Xiamen and Quanzhou) why

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 為什麼 (“why”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 為何何以
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 為何為什麼
Mandarin Beijing 為什麼
Taiwan 為什麼
Tianjin 為嘛
Harbin 為啥
Cantonese Guangzhou 點解做乜做乜嘢做咩為乜
Hong Kong 點解做乜做乜嘢做咩為乜、做乜事幹、因乜事幹、因乜解究
Taishan 幾解、做乜為乜、乜頭路
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 做麼个
Liudui (S. Sixian) 做麼个
Hsinchu (Hailu) 做麼个
Dongshi (Dabu) 做麼个
Zhuolan (Raoping) 做麼个
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 做麼个
Min Nan Quanzhou 為甚物按怎物代
Xiamen 為甚物按怎物代
Zhangzhou 為甚物按怎
Taipei 為啥物、是按怎
Malaysia 啥物事
Wu Shanghai 啥體為啥、啥講究、啥個講究、啥個路道、啥個緣故
Wenzhou 妝乜、為乜事幹

Pronoun

物代

  1. (Min Nan, chiefly Kinmen and Magong) what

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 什麼 (“what”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 什麼
Mandarin Beijing 什麼
Taiwan 什麼
Tianjin
Harbin
Shenyang 什麼
Jinan 麼兒、什麼
Muping 麼個
Luoyang
Wanrong
Xi'an
Xining
Xuzhou 、啥子
Yinchuan
Ürümqi
Wuhan 麼事
Chengdu 、啥子
Guiyang 哪樣
Liuzhou 什嗎
Kunming 什麼
Nanjing 什麼
Hefei 哄個
Nantong 甚呢
Cantonese Guangzhou 乜嘢乜嘢嘢咩嘢
Hong Kong 乜嘢乜嘢嘢咩嘢
Dongguan 乜嘢
Taishan
Yangjiang 乜嘢
Gan Nanchang 什哩
Lichuan 什仔
Pingxiang 咋個
Hakka Meixian 麼個
Xingning 麼個
Huidong (Huizhou) 麼個
Qujiang 麼個
Xiaosanjiang 麼個
Changting 麼個
Pingyu 麼個
Wuping 麼個
Liancheng 麼個
Yudu 子個
Ruijin 、唔幾
Shicheng 什麼
Shangyou 哪項、口哪
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 麼個
Liudui (S. Sixian) 麼個
Hsinchu (Hailu) 麼個
Dongshi (Dabu) 麼個
Zhuolan (Raoping) 麼個
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 麼個
Hui Jixi 麼仂
Jin Taiyuan
Xinzhou
Min Bei Jian'ou 孰事、孰麼
Min Dong Fuzhou 什乇
Min Nan Quanzhou 什物啥物
Xiamen 什物啥物啥貨
Zhangzhou 什物啥物啥貨
Taipei 啥貨啥物
Kaohsiung 啥貨啥物
Tainan 啥物啥貨
Taichung
Yilan 啥貨
Lukang 啥物啥貨
Sanxia
Kinmen 啥貨物代
Magong 啥貨物代
Hsinchu
Malaysia 啥物
Chaozhou 乜個
Haikou 、個乜
Leizhou
Pinghua Nanning 、哪門
Wu Shanghai 、啥個
Suzhou
Hangzhou
Wenzhou 何呢
Chongming
Danyang 點高
Jinhua
Ningbo
Xiang Changsha 麼子
Shuangfeng 麼子
Loudi 麼子

Verb

物代

  1. (Min Nan, chiefly Xiamen and Quanzhou) what is (someone) doing
    物代 [Min Nan]   Lí teh mih-tāi? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]   What are you doing?

Synonyms