骰子

Chinese
cuboid bone; dice
 
child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 pm-1 am; midnight
simp. and trad.
(骰子)		 骰 子
variant forms 投子

Pronunciation
Note: shǎizi - reading it as 色子.
Note: sik1 zi2 - reading it as 色子.

Noun

骰子

  1. die (polyhedron used in games of chance) (Classifier: 顆／颗 m)
    擲骰子 / 掷骰子  ―  zhì tóuzi  ―  to throw dice

Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 骰子 (“die (used in games of chance)”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 骰子
Mandarin Beijing 色子
Taiwan 色子
Harbin 色子
Jinan 色子
Muping 色子
Luoyang 色子, 色兒
Wanrong 色子
Xi'an 色子
Yinchuan 色子
Lanzhou 色子
Ürümqi 色子
Wuhan 色子
Chengdu 色子
Guiyang 色子
Liuzhou 色子
Yangzhou 猴子
Nanjing 猴兒, 猴子
Nantong 色兒
Cantonese Guangzhou 色仔
Hong Kong 色仔, 色
Foshan 色仔
Shunde 色仔
Zhongshan (Shiqi) 色仔
Doumen (Shangheng Tanka) 色仔
Taishan 色仔
Kaiping (Chikan) 色仔
Dongguan 色仔
Gan Nanchang 色子
Lichuan 色子
Pingxiang 色子
Hakka Meixian 骰仔
Yudu 色子
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 骰仔, 猴仔, 寶斗仁
Liudui (S. Sixian) 骰仔
Hsinchu (Hailu) 骰仔, 猴仔, 寶斗仁
Dongshi (Dabu) 十八啦
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 輾豆
Huizhou Jixi 寶子
Jin Taiyuan 色兒
Xinzhou 色兒
Min Bei Jian'ou 骰仔
Min Dong Fuzhou 骰
Min Nan Xiamen 骰仔, 豆仔
Quanzhou 骰仔, 豆仔
Zhangzhou 骰仔, 豆仔
Taipei 救十八
Kaohsiung 撚骰仔
Tainan 撚寶
Taichung 十八骰仔
Hsinchu 骰九
Lukang 撚骰仔
Sanxia 膏十八仔
Yilan 撚骰仔
Kinmen 骰仔
Magong 骰仔
Haikou 色囝
Leizhou 骰
Pinghua Nanning 色子
Wu Shanghai 骰子
Suzhou 骰子
Hangzhou 骰子
Wenzhou 骰子
Chongming 骰子
Danyang 骰子
Ningbo 色子
Xiang Changsha 色子
Loudi 骰子

Japanese
Kanji in this term
骰 子
Hyōgaiji Grade: 1
Irregular

Etymology

The kanji is jukujikun (熟字訓), from Chinese 骰子.

Noun

骰子 (hiragana さいころ, katakana サイコロ, rōmaji saikoro)

  1. Alternative spelling of 賽子 (“die”) (polyhedron used in games of chance)
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