起膊

Chinese

		to rise; to raise; to get up	shoulder; upper arm
trad. (起膊)		起	膊
simp. #(起膊)		起	膊

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hei² bok³
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): hi³ bog⁵

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hei² bok³
    • Yale: héi bok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hei² bok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: héi² bog³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hei̯³⁵ pɔːk̚³/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: hi³ bog⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /hi³¹ pɔk̚¹/

Verb

起膊

1. (Cantonese, Hakka) to hoist something over one's shoulder
   • 1841, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect, Macao: S.W. Williams, page 186:

     客踏入轎扛內，退行入轎，坐定，轎夫起膊。 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     客踏入轿扛内，退行入轿，坐定，轿夫起膊。 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     haak³ daap⁶ jap⁶ giu⁶ gong³ noi⁶, teoi³ hang⁴ jap⁶ giu⁶, zo⁶ ding⁶, giu⁶ fu¹ hei² bok³. [Jyutping]

     The visitor steps in between the shafts, and moves backward and sits down in the sedan, and the bearers raise it up on their shoulders.

Synonyms

• (Hakka) 上膊 (shàngbó)
• (Hakka, Teochew) 上肩