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頭家
頭家
See also: 头家
Chinese
| head; (noun suffix) | home; family; -ist; -er; -ian; measure word for stores and schools
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| trad. (頭家) | 頭 | 家 | |
| simp. (头家) | 头 | 家 | |
Noun
頭家
- (chiefly Min Nan, Hakka) owner (of a shop etc., addressed by customers)
- (chiefly Min Nan, Hakka) boss (addressed by employees)
- (chiefly Min Nan, Hakka) husband
- (gambling) organizer of a gambling party who takes a cut of the winnings
- (gambling, card games) banker of the first round
- (gambling, card games) first player
- (gambling, card games) preceding player
- organizer of a ceremony at a temple
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 老闆 (“boss; proprietor”) | ||
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| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 老闆 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 老闆 |
| Taiwan | 老闆、頭家 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 事頭、老細、老闆 |
| Hong Kong | 事頭、老細、老闆、波士 | |
| Taishan | 事頭、老細、老闆 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 老闆 |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 頭家 |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 頭家 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 頭家 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 頭家 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 頭家 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 頭家 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 老闆、掌櫃、掌櫃的 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 老闆 |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 頭家 |
| Xiamen | 頭家 | |
| Zhangzhou | 頭家 | |
| Taipei | 老闆、頭家 | |
| Kaohsiung | 頭家 | |
| Tainan | 老闆、頭家 | |
| Taichung | 頭家 | |
| Yilan | 老闆、頭家 | |
| Lukang | 頭家 | |
| Sanxia | 頭家 | |
| Kinmen | 頭家 | |
| Magong | 頭家 | |
| Hsinchu | 頭家 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 老闆 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 老闆 |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Burmese: ထောင်ကဲ (htaungkai:) - honorific term for a Chinese man[1]
- English: towkay (Malaysian English)
References
- ↑ Myanmar-English Dictionary (1993, Myanmar Language Commission; republished 1996, Dunwoody Press)