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
alternative forms		啊是阿是也是益是

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yìshì

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

(Teochew, Peng'im): a¹ si⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yìshì
  - Zhuyin: ㄧˋ ㄕˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yìshìh
  - Wade–Giles: i⁴-shih⁴
  - Yale: yì-shr̀
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yihshyh
  - Palladius: иши (iši)
  - 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
Southern Min
- (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 si²²/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /a(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ si²²/
  - IPA (Penang): /a(ʔ)⁴⁻³ si²¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /a(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ si³³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /a(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ si³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: á-sǐ
  - Tâi-lô: á-sǐ
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /a⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ si²²/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ia̍h-sī
  - Tâi-lô: ia̍h-sī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iaqsi
  - IPA (Taipei): /ia(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ si³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ia(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ si³³/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iah-sī
  - Tâi-lô: iah-sī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iahsi
  - IPA (Taipei): /ia(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ si³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ia(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ si³³/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ah-sī
  - Tâi-lô: ah-sī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ahsi
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /a(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ si³³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /a(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ si³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: a¹ si⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: a sĭ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /a³³⁻²³ si³⁵/

Conjunction

抑是

(literary or Southern Min) or
好抑是毋好 [Hokkien] ― hó ia̍h-sī m̄ hó [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― okay or not okay

你欲食麵抑是米粉？ [Hokkien, trad.]
你欲食面抑是米粉？ [Hokkien, simp.]
Lí beh chia̍h mī -a̍h-sī bí-hún? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
Do you want to eat wheat noodles or rice noodles?
- 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.]
  From: 2015, Li Wei, Multilingualism in the Chinese Diaspora Worldwide: Transnational Connections and Local Social Realities, Routledge →ISBN, page 209
  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, 或
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		抑或, 還是
Mandarin	Taiwan	還是
	Yangzhou	還是
	Singapore	還是
Cantonese	Guangzhou	定係, 定
	Hong Kong	定係, 定, 抑或, 抑或係, 定抑或, 定抑或係, 還是, 定還是, 定還是係
	Taishan	毋, 毋又, 抑或
	Singapore (Guangfu)	定, 定係
Gan	Nanchang	還是
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	還係, 也係
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	還係, 也係
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	還係, 也係
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	還係, 也係
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	還係, 也係
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	抑係
Huizhou	Jixi	還是
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	故是
Southern Min	Xiamen	抑是, 抑
	Quanzhou	抑是, 抑
	Zhangzhou	抑是, 抑
	Taipei	抑是
	Penang (Hokkien)	抑是
	Singapore (Hokkien)	抑是
	Manila (Hokkien)	抑是
	Chaozhou	抑是
	Singapore (Teochew)	抑是
Xiang	Loudi	還是

抑是

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