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

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

(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

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