Tuesday, 19 July 2022

What did Sweet Potato Aunty say to A'Hang

If you were to listen to Huang’guah Sim [Sweet Potato Aunty] saying to A’Hang – do you know what she is saying? The subtitles are 留著跟新J仔一樣

She said:

lao5 liao2 gah4 Sing1giang1 gian2 bên5ion7 留了合新疆平樣

leaving (the beard to grow) is like a person from Xinjiang [Why? This is because men from the Province of Xinjiang do not shave their beards.]

beard in Teochew is called hou5ciu1 鬍鬚|胡须 and the Mandarin word is hu2zi5 鬍子|胡子

the verb to shave a beard is: koi1 剴|剀 and the Mandarin word is gua1



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