抑是

Chinese

		to restrain; to restrict; to keep down to restrain; to restrict; to keep down; or	be; yes; this
simp. and trad. (抑是)		抑	是
variant forms		啊是阿是也是益是

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yìshì

(Zhuyin): ㄧˋ ㄕˋ
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): a̍h-sī / á-sǐ / ia̍h-sī / iah-sī / ah-sī

(Teochew, Peng'im): a¹ si⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Pinyin: yìshì
  - Zhuyin: ㄧˋ ㄕˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yihshyh
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yìshìh
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
  - Homophones:
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    意識／意识
    抑是
    易事
    異事／异事
    義士／义士
    藝事／艺事
    藝士／艺士
    譯釋／译释
    議事／议事
    軼事／轶事
    逸事
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, variant in Taiwan, Penang)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: a̍h-sī
  - Tâi-lô: a̍h-sī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: aqsi
  - IPA (Xiamen): /a(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ ɕi²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /a(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ ɕi³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /a(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ ɕi²²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /a(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ ɕi³³/
  - IPA (Penang): /a(ʔ)⁴⁻³ ɕi²¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: á-sǐ
  - Tâi-lô: á-sǐ
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /a⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ɕi²²/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ia̍h-sī
  - Tâi-lô: ia̍h-sī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iaqsi
  - IPA (Taipei): /ia(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ ɕi³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ia(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ ɕi³³/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iah-sī
  - Tâi-lô: iah-sī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iahsi
  - IPA (Taipei): /ia(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ ɕi³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ia(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ ɕi³³/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ah-sī
  - Tâi-lô: ah-sī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ahsi
  - IPA (Taipei): /a(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ ɕi³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /a(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ ɕi³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: a¹ si⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: a sĭ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /a³³⁻²³ si³⁵/

Conjunction

抑是

(literary or Min Nan) or
- 好抑是毋好 [Min Nan] ― hó ia̍h-sī m̄ hó [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― okay or not okay
- 2015, Li Wei, Multilingualism in the Chinese Diaspora Worldwide: Transnational Connections and Local Social Realities, Routledge →ISBN, page 209
  汝覺得呾潮州話在新加坡應唔應該流傳下去？啊是華人呾華語就夠了？ [Teochew, trad.]
  汝觉得呾潮州话在新加坡应唔应该流传下去？啊是华人呾华语就够了？ [Teochew, simp.]
  Do you think Teochew language should be preserved in Singapore or is Mandarin good enough? ^[sic]

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 還是 (“or”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		抑
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		抑或, 或是
Mandarin	Beijing	還是
Mandarin	Taiwan	還是
Cantonese	Guangzhou	定係, 定
	Hong Kong	定係, 定
	Taishan	毋, 毋又
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	還係, 也係
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	還係, 也係
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	還係, 也係
	Dongshi (Dabu)	還係, 也係
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	還係, 也係
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	抑係
Min Nan	Xiamen	抑是, 抑
	Quanzhou	抑是, 抑
	Zhangzhou	抑是, 抑
	Taipei	抑是
	Chaozhou	抑是

抑是

Chinese

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