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 刮
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