人妖 - Wiktionary, the free dictionary


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man; person; people

goblin; witch; devil

goblin; witch; devil; bewitching; enchanting; monster; phantom

trad. (人妖)
simp. #(人妖)
anagram 妖人


BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
rén
Middle
Chinese
‹ nyin ›
Old
Chinese
/*ni[ŋ]/
English (other) person

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 10800 14627
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njin/ /*qrow/

人妖

  1. (Classical, derogatory) man-made disaster
    alt. forms: 人祅 (rényāo)
  2. (derogatory) bad person
  3. (Classical, derogatory) strange person
  4. (derogatory, offensive) tranny (a transsexual, transgender, transvestite, or intersex person, especially a trans woman); shemale
    泰國人妖泰国人妖  ―  Tàiguó rényāo  ―  kathoey
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see (rén),‎ (yāo): human and monster

Dialectal synonyms of 變性人 (“transsexual person”) [map]

Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 變性人
Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 變性人, 人妖
Singapore 人妖
Southwestern Mandarin Lancang 人妖
Dagudi (Maliba) กะเทย, 變性人, 人妖, 二姨媽
Reshuitang (Longling) กะเทย, 變性人, 人妖
Mae Salong (Lancang) 人妖, กะเทย
Mae Sai (Tengchong) 人妖, กะเทย
Cantonese Guangzhou 人妖
Hong Kong 變性人, 人妖
Rongxian 人妖
Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô) 人妖
Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà) 人妖
Fangchenggang (Fangcheng) 人妖
Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu) 人妖
Móng Cái 變性人
Bangkok (Guangfu) 人妖, กะเทย
Betong (Rongxian) 人妖, กะเทย
Hakka Meixian 變性人
Bangkok (Meixian) 人妖
Bangkok (Jiexi) 人妖, กะเทย, ตุ๊ด
Southern Min Singapore (Hokkien) 阿倌 male to female
Bangkok (Teochew) 人妖, 半男女, กะเทย
Chiang Mai (Teochew) 人妖
Hat Yai (Teochew) 人妖
Pontianak (Teochew) 半公母