企くわだて鵝

See also: 企くわだて鹅

Chinese

FWOTD – 3 December 2021

		to stand	goose
trad. (企くわだて鵝)		企くわだて	鵝
simp. (企くわだて鹅)		企くわだて	鹅
alternative forms		企くわだて鵞／企くわだて鹅
Literally: “standing goose”.

Etymology

• (employee who does not work): From 行くだり行ぎょう企くわだて企くわだて (haang⁴ haang⁴ kei⁵ kei⁵, “to walk around aimlessly and have nothing to do”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qǐ'é, qì'é

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˇ ㄜˊ, ㄑㄧˋ ㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kei⁵ ngo^4-2
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): khî-ngò
• Eastern Min (BUC): kié-ngò̤
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): khí-gô / khì-gô

  (Teochew, Peng'im): gi⁶ gho⁵

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵chi-ngu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qǐ'é
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˇ ㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cǐ-é
    • Wade–Giles: chʻi³-o²
    • Yale: chǐ-é
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiier
    • Palladius: циэ (cie)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹ ˀɤ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qì'é
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˋ ㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cì-é
    • Wade–Giles: chʻi⁴-o²
    • Yale: chì-é
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiher
    • Palladius: циэ (cie)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi⁵¹ ˀɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kei⁵ ngo^4-2
    • Yale: kéih ngó
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kei⁵ ngo^4-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: kéi⁵ ngo^4-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰei̯¹³ ŋɔː²¹⁻³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khî-ngò
    • Hakka Romanization System: ki^ˊ ngo^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ki¹ ngo²
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰi²⁴ ŋo¹¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: kié-ngò̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰie²¹³⁻⁵⁵ ŋo⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khí-gô
    • Tâi-lô: khí-gô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qy'gooi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɡo²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: dated in Xiamen, dated in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khì-gô
    • Tâi-lô: khì-gô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qie'gooi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰi²¹⁻⁵³ ɡo²⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰi¹¹⁻⁵³ ɡo²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰi²¹⁻⁴¹ ɡɤ²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: gi⁶ gho⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kĭ gô
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki³⁵⁻¹¹ ɡo⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵chi-ngu
    • MiniDict: chi^去さ ngu
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²qi-ngu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡ɕʰi³³ ŋu⁴⁴/

Noun

企くわだて鵝

1. penguin (Classifier: 隻せき／只ただ m c) [from 19th c.]

   • 企くわだて鵝翼つばさ小しょう難なん行くだり、而善ぜん於游ゆう水みず。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     企くわだて鹅翼つばさ小しょう难行くだり、而善ぜん于游ゆう水みず。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1864, 《智さとし環かん啟蒙けいもう塾じゅく課か初步しょほ》 [Graduated Reading; Comprising a Circle of Knowledge in 200 Lessons. Gradation 1], second edition, improved, lesson 64

     Qǐ'é yì xiǎo nán xíng, ér shànyú yóushuǐ. [Pinyin]

     the penguin has small wings, it walks badly, but swims well.

   • 時とき天氣てんき冷ひや絕ぜっ。迭克忍にん寒さむ而哭。雨雲あまぐも復ふく聚。遂とげ奔歸き板屋いたや。旣すんで入いれ。進すすむ餅もち。並なみ煑企くわだて鵝之これ卵たまご食しょく之これ。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     时天てん气冷ひや绝。迭克忍にん寒さむ而哭。雨あめ云うん复聚。遂とげ奔归板屋いたや。既すんで入いれ。进饼。并煮に企くわだて鹅之これ卵たまご食しょく之これ。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1905, H. Rider Haggard, translated by 林はやし紓 [Lin Shu] and 魏ぎ易えき [Wei Yi], 《玉雪たまゆき留とめ痕こん》 [Mr Meeson's Will], chapter 10

     Shí tiānqì lěng jué. Diékè rěn hán ér kū. Yǔyún fù jù. Suì bēn guī bǎnwū. Jì rù. Jìn bǐng. Bìng zhǔ qǐ'é zhī luǎn shí zhī. [Pinyin]

     It was very cold outside; so cold that the child cried, and the rain clouds were coming up fast, so she hurried back to the hut, and, together with Dick, made her breakfast off some biscuit and some roast penguin’s eggs, which were not at all bad eating. [original English]
     It was very cold then. Dick endured the cold and cried. The rain clouds gathered again, so [she] hurried back to the hut, and [they] both entered. [They] ate some biscuit, and [they] cooked the penguin’s eggs and ate them. [literal English translation]

   • 而當とう小しょう企くわだて鵝被ひ孵かえ出で，媽媽還かえ沒ぼつ回かい來らい時とき，企くわだて鵝爸爸則のり吐出で自己じこ的てき胃液いえき，來き哺育ほいく孩子。 [Taiwanese Mandarin, trad.]
     而当とう小しょう企くわだて鹅被ひ孵かえ出で，妈妈还没ぼつ回かい来らい时，企くわだて鹅爸爸则吐出で自己じこ的てき胃液いえき，来き哺育ほいく孩子。 [Taiwanese Mandarin, simp.]

     From: 1996, 劉りゅう墉 [Liu Yong], 《生生世世しょうじょうせぜ未了みりょう緣えん》, page 166

     Ér dāng xiǎo qì'é bèi fūchū, māma hái méi huílái shí, qì'é bàba zé tùchū zìjǐ de wèiyè, lái bǔyù háizi. [Pinyin]

     And when the little penguin hatches out and its mom has still not come back, the penguin dad would spit out his gastric juice and feed it to his child.

2. (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) employee who does not work

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 企くわだて鵝 (“penguin”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		企くわだて鵝
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	企くわだて鵝
	Singapore	企くわだて鵝
Cantonese	Hong Kong	企くわだて鵝
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	企くわだて鵝
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	企くわだて鵝
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	企くわだて鵝
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	企くわだて鵝
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	企くわだて鵝
Southern Min	Xiamen	企くわだて鵝
	Tainan	徛鵝
	Singapore (Teochew)	徛鵝
Wu	Shanghai	企くわだて鵝

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (企くわだて鵝):

• → Japanese: 企くわだて鵝(きが) (kiga)

Others:

• → Zhuang: gingoz

Japanese

Kanji in this term
企くわだて	鵝
き Grade: S	が Hyōgai
on'yomi

Noun

企くわだて(き)鵝(が) • (kiga) 

1. (rare) penguin

Synonyms

• 人ひと鳥とり(じんちょう) (jinchō), ペンギン (pengin)