頭家

See also: 头家

Chinese

head; (noun suffix)
 
home; family; ‑ist; ‑er; ‑ian; measure word for stores and schools
trad. (頭家)
simp. (头家)

Pronunciation


Noun

頭家

  1. (chiefly Min Nan, Hakka) owner (of a shop etc., addressed by customers)
  2. (chiefly Min Nan, Hakka) boss (addressed by employees)
  3. (chiefly Min Nan, Hakka) husband
  4. (gambling) organizer of a gambling party who takes a cut of the winnings
  5. (gambling, card games) banker of the first round
  6. (gambling, card games) first player
  7. (gambling, card games) preceding player
  8. organizer of a ceremony at a temple

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 老闆 (“boss; proprietor”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 老闆
Mandarin Beijing 老闆
Taiwan 老闆頭家
Cantonese Guangzhou 事頭老細老闆波士
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 Xiamen 頭家
Quanzhou 頭家
Zhangzhou 頭家
Taipei 老闆頭家
Kaohsiung 頭家
Tainan 老闆頭家
Taichung 頭家
Hsinchu 頭家
Lukang 頭家
Sanxia 頭家
Yilan 老闆頭家
Kinmen 頭家
Magong 頭家
Philippines (Manila) 頭家
Wu Shanghai 老闆
Xiang Changsha 老闆

Derived terms

  • 厝頭家厝头家
  • 店頭家店头家

Descendants

  • Burmese: ထောင်ကဲ (htaungkai:, honorific term for a Chinese man)[1]
  • Malay: tauke
    • English: towkay (Malaysian English)
    • Indonesian: tauke (business owner)

References

  1. Myanmar-English Dictionary (1993, Myanmar Language Commission; republished 1996, Dunwoody Press)
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.