花會

Chinese

		flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern	to meet; to gather; group to meet; to gather; group; to assemble; association; be able to; be likely to; to balance an account; accounting
trad. (花會)		花	會
simp. (花会)		花	会

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): huāhuì

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚㄏㄨㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): faa¹ wui^6-2
Min Nan (Hokkien, POJ): hoe-hē / hoa-hōe / hoe-hōe

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: huāhuì
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚㄏㄨㄟˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: huahuèi
  - Wade–Giles: hua¹-hui⁴
  - Yale: hwā-hwèi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huahuey
  - Palladius: хуахуэй (xuaxuej)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵⁵ xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
  - Homophones:
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    花卉
    花會／花会
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: faa¹ wui^6-2
  - Yale: fā wúi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: faa¹ wui^6-2
  - Guangdong Romanization: fa¹ wui^6-2
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /faː⁵⁵ wuːi̯²²⁻³⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoe-hē
  - Tâi-lô: hue-hē
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoe'he
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hue⁴⁴⁻³³ he³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hue⁴⁴⁻²² he²²/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoa-hōe
  - Tâi-lô: hua-huē
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoa'hoe
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hua⁴⁴⁻²² hue²²/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou-like accent in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoe-hōe
  - Tâi-lô: hue-huē
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoe'hoe

Noun

花會

flower fair (a traditional activity popular in Hebei province, often held during the Chinese New Year and Lantern Festival, featuring numerous varieties of folk song, dance, Chinese opera, stiltwalking, fan drums, lion dance, and "dry boats")
(Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taiwanese Hokkien and Taiwanese Mandarin, gambling, historical) an illegal gambling numbers game, from Early Ming dynasty till it was banned in 1949, historically popular in Fujian, Guangdong, Shanghai, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Tianjin, Beijing, and further across Mainland China, Taiwan and abroad
Synonym: 花當／花当 (Quanzhou)
1. (gambling, historical) a gambling game using an octangular teetotum with 5 to 8 characters
2. (gambling, historical) a gambling game played by shaking dice without a teetotum with up to 37 characters

Compounds

搖花會／摇花会
撚花會／撚花会
硩花會／硩花会
花會場／花会场
花會枋／花会枋
花會骰／花会骰

Descendants

→ Tagalog: wahoy, wahuy
→ Tausug: wahuy

See also

撚寶／撚宝

Further reading

“清末明初的另類彩票——打花會”, in 每日頭條‎, January 8, 2018
小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “花會”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎ (in Japanese and Taiwanese Hokkien), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
東方孝義 (TŌHŌ Takayoshi) (1931), “花會”, in 臺日新辭書 [New Taiwanese–Japanese dictionary] (in Japanese and Min Nan), Taihoku: 臺灣警察協會, page 855
Douglas, Carstairs (1899), “hoe-hē”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, London: Presbyterian Church of England, page 124

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