八哥

Chinese

		eight	elder brother
simp. and trad. (八哥)		八	哥

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَبَّغَاء‎ (babbaḡāʾ, “parrot”) (Luo, 1950).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bāgē

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄚㄍㄜ
Cantonese (Jyutping): baat³ go¹
Min Nan (POJ): pat-ko

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: bāgē → bāge (toneless final syllable variant)
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄚㄍㄜ → ㄅㄚ ˙ㄍㄜ (toneless final syllable variant)
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ba1.ge
  - IPA ^(key): /pa̠⁵⁵ kɤ⁵⁵/ → /pa̠⁵⁵ g̊ə²/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Pinyin: bāgēr
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄚㄍㄜㄦ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ba1gel
  - IPA ^(key): /pa̠⁵⁵ kɤɻ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: baat³ go¹
  - Yale: baat gō
  - Cantonese Pinyin: baat⁸ go¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: bad³ go¹
  - IPA ^(key): /pɑːt̚³ kɔː⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pat-ko
  - Tâi-lô: pat-ko
  - Phofsit Daibuun: patkoy
  - IPA (Xiamen): /pat̚³²⁻⁴ ko⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pat̚⁵⁻²⁴ ko³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pat̚³²⁻⁵ ko⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pat̚³²⁻⁴ ko⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pat̚³²⁻⁴ kɤ⁴⁴/

Noun

八哥

(colloquial) myna bird

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 八哥 (“myna”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		鴝鵒
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		八哥
Mandarin	Beijing	八哥兒
	Taiwan	八哥
	Harbin	八哥兒
	Shenyang	八哥
	Jinan	八哥
	Muping	八哥兒
	Luoyang	八哥兒
	Jiedian	八哥
	Xi'an	八哥兒
	Zhengzhou	八哥兒
	Xining	八哥兒
	Xuzhou	八哥兒
	Yinchuan	八哥
	Lanzhou	八哥
	Ürümqi	八哥兒、黑八兒
	Wuhan	八哥
	Chengdu	八哥、八哥兒
	Guiyang	八兒、八哥
	Guilin	八哥
	Liuzhou	八哥、八哥鳥、鷯哥
	Kunming	八哥
	Yangzhou	八哥子
	Nanjing	八哥
	Hefei	八哥子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	鷯哥
	Hong Kong	鷯哥
	Shunde	鷯哥
	Foshan	鷯哥
	Zhongshan	鷯哥
	Dongguan	鷯哥
	Hong Kong (Weitou)	鷯哥
	Taishan	鷯哥
	Doumen	鷯哥
	Kaiping	鷯哥
	Shaoguan	鷯哥
	Yunfu	鷯哥
	Yangjiang	鷯哥、鷯仔
	Xinyi	鷯哥
	Lianjiang	鷯哥
	Nanning	鷯哥
	Wuzhou	鷯哥、八哥
	Yulin	鷯哥
	Hepu	阿鷯
	Kuala Lumpur	鷯哥
Gan	Nanchang	八哥子
	Lichuan	八兒
	Pingxiang	哵哵鳥仔、哵哵鳥、哵哵仔
Hakka	Meixian	烏鷯哥
	Luchuan	鷯哥
	Yudu	烏葉子
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	白翼仔、烏鷯
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	白翼仔、烏鷯
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	白翼仔、烏鷯
	Dongshi (Dabu)	白翼、烏鷯、烏鷯哥
	Zhuolan (Raoping)	白翼仔、烏鷯仔
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	八哥鳥
	Hong Kong	鷯哥
	Senai	鷯哥
	Singkawang	烏鷯哥
Huizhou	Jixi	八哥
Jin	Taiyuan	八哥
Jin	Xinzhou	八哥兒
Min Bei	Jian'ou	八八仔
Min Dong	Fuzhou	化化
Min Dong	Fuqing	八八
Min Nan	Xiamen	鵁鴒
	Quanzhou	鵁鴒、烏肉
	Zhangzhou	鵁鴒
	Taipei	鵁鴒
	Kaohsiung	鵁鴒
	Tainan	鵁鴒
	Taichung	鵁鴒
	Hsinchu	鵁鴒
	Lukang	鵁鴒
	Sanxia	鵁鴒
	Yilan	鵁鴒
	Kinmen	鵁鴒
	Magong	鵁鴒
	Penang	鵁鴒
	Singapore	鵁鴒
	Pingnan	鷯哥
	Chaozhou	鷯哥
	Shantou	鷯哥
	Haifeng	鳥哥仔
	Johor Bahru	鷯哥
	Haikou	鷯哥
Pinghua	Nanning	鷯哥、把巴
Pinghua	Guilin	鷯哥
Wu	Shanghai	八哥
	Suzhou	八哥
	Hangzhou	八哥兒
	Wenzhou	八哥兒
	Chongming	八哥
	Danyang	八哥
	Jinhua	八哥兒
	Ningbo	八哥
Xiang	Changsha	八哥子
	Shuangfeng	牛阿八、阿八
	Xiangtan	八樂子
	Loudi	哵哵唧
	Quanzhou	八哥鳥

Derived terms

家八哥 (jiābāgē)

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