八月十五
Chinese
| eighth month of the Chinese calendar | fifteen; 15 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (八月十五) | 八月 | 十五 | |
| simp. #(八月十五) | 八月 | 十五 | |
| Literally: “fifteenth day of the eighth month”. | |||
Etymology
- “Mid-Autumn Festival”
- From the date of the festival.
- “buttocks”
- From the tradition of eating pomelo during the Mid-Autumn Festival, since the word for pomelo 囉柚／啰柚 (lo1 jau6-2), a variant of 碌柚 (luk1 jau6-2), is primarily used now to refer to the buttocks (Tsang, 2008). Alternatively, it may be from the resemblance of the shape of buttocks with a full moon, which occurs during the Mid-Autumn Festival (Mai and Tan, 2016).
Pronunciation
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 中秋節 (“Mid-Autumn Festival”) [map]
Dialectal synonyms of 屁股 (“buttocks”) [map]
Descendants
- → Zhuang: bet nyied cibngux
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