星兒

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: cên1 ri5
POJ: tsheⁿ-jî
Variety: chaozhou

Pronunciation note: Realised [dz] ~ [z] ~ [l] depending on speaker and register; many younger speakers merge it with /l/. The cited sources corroborate [dz], relaxing to [z] for younger/overseas speakers; neither attests the further merger to /l/.

Meanings and usage

noun: star (poetic/diminutive form)
星

The page lists no explicit Teochew pronunciation for this headword; the given reading was matched to the poetic/dialectal 'diminutive of star' sense (which parallels the Hokkien Southern Min reading) rather than the Mandarin-only erhua 'speck' sense, but this correspondence is inferred rather than directly attested on the page.

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