red-haired
→
person of the Caucasian race
8 realizations
GROUP: Sinitic
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Cantonese Chinese | |
| lexeme | hung4 mou4 jan4 (紅毛人) | |
| meaning 1 | red-haired person | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | person of the Caucasian race | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Cantonese Chinese | |
| lexeme 1 | hung4 mou4 (紅毛) + gwai2 (鬼) | |
| lexeme 2 | hung4 mou4 gwai2 (紅毛鬼) | |
| meaning 1 | red-haired + ghost | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (derogatory) a Dutch or British person, or Western foreigners in general | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Southern Min (Min Nan) | |
| lexeme | âng-mn̂g-lâng (紅毛人) | |
| meaning 1 | red-haired person | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | person of the Caucasian race | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Southern Min (Min Nan) | |
| lexeme 1 | ang5 mo5 (紅毛) + gui2 (鬼) | |
| lexeme 2 | ang5 mo5 gui2 (紅毛鬼) | |
| meaning 1 | red-haired + ghost | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (derogatory) a Dutch or British person, or Western foreigners in general | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Southern Min (Min Nan) | |
| lexeme 1 | âng-mô͘ (紅毛) + kâu (猴) | |
| lexeme 2 | âng-mô͘-kâu (紅毛猴) | |
| meaning 1 | red-haired + monkey | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (offensive, regional) person of the Caucasian race | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | Penang (Hokkien) and Singapore (Hokkien) |
|
| NEW Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Taiwanese Hokkien | |
| lexeme | âng-mn̂g / âng-mô͘ / âng-mo͘ (紅毛) | |
| meaning 1 | red-haired person | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (derogatory) Caucasian or European person; white person | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan Medhurst, W. H. (1832). A Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language: According to the Reading and Colloquial Idioms: Containing about 12,000 Characters. Macau: East India Press. p. 481 Zaccheus, Melody (December 3, 2019). "Term 'ang moh' in use as early as 1600s in Ming Dynasty map". The Straits Times https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/term-ang-moh-in-use-as-early-as-1600s-in-ming-dynasty-map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang_mo |
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| NEW Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Teochew (Chaozhou) | |
| lexeme | ang5 mo5 (紅毛) | |
| meaning 1 | red-haired person | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (colloquial, derogatory, sometimes offensive, ethnic slur) person of the Caucasian race | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Teochew (Chaozhou) | |
| lexeme | ang5 mo5 gian2 (紅毛囝) | |
| meaning 1 | red-haired person | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | person of the Caucasian race | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||