小惠

Chinese

		small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young	favour; kind act (from above)
simp. and trad. (小惠)		小	惠

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiǎohuì

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): siu² wai⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sió-hūi

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎohuì
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄟˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: siǎohuèi
  - Wade–Giles: hsiao³-hui⁴
  - Yale: syǎu-hwèi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheauhuey
  - Palladius: сяохуэй (sjaoxuej)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: siu² wai⁶
  - Yale: síu waih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: siu² wai⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: xiu² wei⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯³⁵ wɐi̯²²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sió-hūi
  - Tâi-lô: sió-huī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sioy'hui
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ɕio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hui²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕio⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hui⁴¹/

Noun

小惠

small favor (usually as economic bait)
- 小惠未遍，民弗從也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  小惠未遍，民弗从也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE
  Xiǎohuì wèi biàn, mín fú cóng yě. [Pinyin]
  Such paltry charity cannot reach all. The people will not follow you.

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