瘋子

See also: 疯子

Chinese

		insane; mad; wild	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
trad. (瘋子)		瘋	子
simp. (疯子)		疯	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fēngzi

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄥ ˙ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fung¹ zi²
• Jin (Wiktionary): feng¹ zeh
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hong-chír / hong-chú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fēngzi
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄥ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fongzi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: fêng¹-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: fēng-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feng.tzy
    • Palladius: фэнцзы (fɛnczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɤŋ⁵⁵ d͡z̥z̩²/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fung¹ zi²
    • Yale: fūng jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fung¹ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: fung¹ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊŋ⁵⁵ t͡siː³⁵/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: feng¹ zeh
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /fə̃ŋ¹¹ t͡səʔ²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hong-chír
    • Tâi-lô: hong-tsír
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔŋ³³ t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hong-chú
    • Tâi-lô: hong-tsú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hongzuo
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² t͡su⁵³/

Noun

瘋子

1. madman; madwoman; lunatic; crazy person (Classifier: 個／个 m)

   人是不能跟瘋子講道理的。 [MSC, trad.]
   人是不能跟疯子讲道理的。 [MSC, simp.]

   Rén shì bùnéng gēn fēngzi jiǎngdàolǐ de. [Pinyin]

   You can't talk reason with crazy people.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 瘋子 (“lunatic; mad person”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		狂人
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		瘋子, 瘋人
Mandarin	Beijing	瘋子
	Taiwan	瘋子
	Yantai (Muping)	痴子
	Jinan	瘋子, 瘋漢
	Wanrong	瘋子
	Xi'an	瘋子
	Yinchuan	瘋子
	Wuhan	瘋子, 魔氣
	Chengdu	瘋子
	Guilin	瘋子, 癲子
	Pingle	瘋子, 癲子
	Liuzhou	癲子, 癲婆 woman, 癲崽 man
	Luzhai	瘋子, 癲子
	Yangzhou	瘋子
	Hefei	瘋子
	Dagudi (Maliba)	瘋人
	Reshuitang (Longling)	瘋子
	Mae Salong (Lancang)	瘋人
	Mae Sai (Tengchong)	瘋人
Cantonese	Guangzhou	癲佬 man, 癲婆 woman, 癲仔 boy, 癲女 girl, 傻佬 man
	Hong Kong	癲佬 man, 癲婆 woman, 黐線佬 man, 黐線婆 woman, 傻佬 man, 傻婆 woman
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	癲佬
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	發癲佬
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	癲佬
	Yangjiang	戇佬 man, 戇婆 woman, 戇仔 boy, 戇妹 girl
	Beihai	癲佬
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	癲仔, 癲佬
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	癲佬
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	癲仔, 癲佬
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	癲佬
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	癲佬
	Móng Cái	癲仔, 癲佬
Gan	Nanchang	瘋子
	Pingxiang	癲子, 癲婆子 woman
Hakka	Meixian	癲仔, 癲鬼, 癲牯 man, 癲嫲 woman
	Hong Kong	懵佬
	Senai (Huiyang)	戇佬
Jin	Taiyuan	瘋子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	發癲仔, 發癲婆 woman
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	癲脬
Southern Min	Xiamen	痟的, 神經的
	Quanzhou	痟的, 神經的
	Zhangzhou	魔神仔, 魔的, 神經的
	Tainan	痟的
	Singapore (Hokkien)	痟囝
	Chaozhou	痟
	Shantou	痟囝
	Bangkok (Teochew)	痟儂
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	痟儂
	Leizhou	妃戇
Zhongshan Min	Sanxiang	癲佬
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	癲崽 man
Wu	Shanghai	痴子, 瘋子
	Shanghai (Chongming)	痴子
	Suzhou	痴子
	Danyang	瘋子
	Wenzhou	癲人
	Jinhua	癲鬼兒 man, 癲婆 woman
Xiang	Changsha	癲子, 瘋子, 八面子
	Loudi	癲子, 癲婆子 woman
	Shuangfeng	癲子

Derived terms

• 半瘋子／半疯子 (bànfēngzi)
• 武瘋子／武疯子 (wǔfēngzi)