# 布袋
## Chinese

* 布袋 (Written Standard Chinese)
* Pò͘-tē (Southern Min)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bùdài
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄞˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): bou$^3$ doi$^6$ / bou$^3$ doi$^{6-2}$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pu-thoi
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): pò͘-tē / pò͘-tēr
    (Teochew, Peng'im): bou$^3$ do$^7$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bùdài
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄞˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bùdài
*** Wade–Giles: pu$^4$-tai$^4$
*** Yale: bù-dài
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buhday
*** Palladius: будай (budaj)
*** Sinological IPA : /pu⁵¹⁻⁵³ taɪ̯⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bou$^3$ doi$^6$ / bou$^3$ doi$^{6-2}$
*** Yale: bou doih / bou dói
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bou$^3$ doi$^6$ / bou$^3$ doi$^{6-2}$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bou$^3$ doi$^6$ / bou$^3$ doi$^{6-2}$
*** Sinological IPA : /pou̯³³ tɔːi̯²²/, /pou̯³³ tɔːi̯²²⁻³⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pu-thoi
*** Hakka Romanization System: bu toi
*** Hagfa Pinyim: bu$^4$ toi$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /pu⁵⁵ tʰoi̯⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pò͘-tē
*** Tâi-lô: pòo-tē
*** Phofsit Daibuun: porde
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɔ²¹⁻⁴¹ te³³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /pɔ¹¹⁻⁵³ te³³/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pɔ²¹⁻⁵³ te²²/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pò͘-tēr
*** Tâi-lô: pòo-tēr
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tə⁴¹/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: bou$^3$ do$^7$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pòu tō
*** Sinological IPA : /pou²¹³⁻⁵⁵ to¹¹/

### Noun

布袋
* fabric bag
* (literary) son-in-law married into the daughter's family
* (dialectal Mandarin) pocket (bag sewn in clothing)

#### Synonyms

* (son-in-law married into the daughter's family): 贅婿／赘婿 (zhuìxù), 補代／补代
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 口袋, 衣袋, 衣兜 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 兜兒, 衣袋兒 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 口袋 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Harbin | 兜兒, 挎兜兒 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Singapore | 口袋 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 布袋兒, 布袋子, 口袋兒, 兜兒 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 布袋兒, 布兜兒, 兜兒 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 兜兒 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 布袋 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 口袋兒, 底底兒 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xining | 絀絀 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xuzhou | 挎包 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Lanzhou | 兜兜子 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Ürümqi | 口袋, 衣服口袋子, 儲褡子 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 包包, 包包兒, 荷包兒 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 荷包, 口袋 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guiyang | 荷包 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guilin | 口袋 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liuzhou | 荷包, 口袋 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 荷包 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 口袋 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Hefei | 荷包, 口袋 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong (Kam Tin; Weitou) | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Macau | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Panyu) | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu) | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Conghua) | 袋仔 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Zengcheng) | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Foshan | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai) | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Shunde) | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Sanshui) | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming) | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Zhongshan (Shiqi) | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou) | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka) | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Zhuhai (Doumen) | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Jiangmen (Baisha) | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Jiangmen (Xinhui) | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Taishan | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Kaiping (Chikan) | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Enping (Niujiang) | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Heshan (Yayao) | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Dongguan | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an) | 袋 |
| Cantonese | Yangjiang | 袋 |
| Gan | Nanchang | 荷包 |
| Gan | Lichuan | 荷包 |
| Gan | Pingxiang | 袋仔 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 袋仔, 衫袋仔 |
| Hakka | Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua) | 袋 |
| Hakka | Dongguan (Qingxi) | 袋 |
| Hakka | Shenzhen (Shatoujiao) | 袋 |
| Hakka | Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui) | 袋 |
| Hakka | Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua) | 燒袋 |
| Hakka | Yudu | 荷包 |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 袋仔 |
| Hakka | Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 袋仔 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 袋仔 |
| Hakka | Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 袋 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 袋仔 |
| Hakka | Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 袋 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 夾袋 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 布袋袋, 倒叉叉, 兜兜 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 倒叉叉, 倒叉子, 布袋袋 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 袋仔 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 袋袋 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 袋仔 |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 袋仔, 袋橐 |
| Southern Min | Jinjiang | 通懷, 橐仔 |
| Southern Min | Yongchun | 轆囝 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 袋仔, 轆袋仔, 轆仔, 交袋仔 |
| Southern Min | Taipei | 轆袋仔 |
| Southern Min | New Taipei (Sanxia) | 轆袋仔 |
| Southern Min | Kaohsiung | 轆袋仔 |
| Southern Min | Yilan | 轆袋仔 |
| Southern Min | Changhua (Lukang) | 通懷仔 |
| Southern Min | Taichung | 轆袋仔 |
| Southern Min | Tainan | 轆袋仔 |
| Southern Min | Hsinchu | 袋仔 |
| Southern Min | Kinmen | 袋仔, 轆仔 |
| Southern Min | Penghu (Magong) | 轆袋仔, 轆仔, 懷 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Hokkien) | 轆袋, 袋 |
| Southern Min | Manila (Hokkien) | 袋仔, 通懷, 橐仔 |
| Southern Min | Chaozhou | 衫袋 |
| Southern Min | Shantou | 袋 |
| Southern Min | Jieyang | 衫袋 |
| Southern Min | Puning | 勾袋 |
| Southern Min | Leizhou | 袋 |
| Southern Min | Haikou | 袋, 囊 |
| Zhongshan Min | Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi) | 袋 |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 荷包 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 袋, 袋袋 |
| Wu | Shanghai (Chongming) | 袋袋 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 袋袋 |
| Wu | Danyang | 袋袋, 袋子, 口袋 |
| Wu | Hangzhou | 袋兒 |
| Wu | Ningbo | 袋袋, 袋衫 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 兜兜, 兜 |
| Wu | Jinhua | 袋 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 襖袋, 荷包 |
| Xiang | Loudi | 袋公 |
| Xiang | Shuangfeng | 袋子, 荷包 |

#### Derived terms

* 崁布袋 (Min Nan)
* 布袋和尚
* 布袋喙 (Min Nan)
* 布袋奶
* 布袋彈 / 布袋弹 (bùdàidàn)
* 布袋戲 / 布袋戏 (bùdàixì)
* 布袋蓮 / 布袋莲 (bùdàilián)
* 布袋裝 / 布袋装
* 帆布袋
* 愁布袋
* 水流內布袋戲臺 / 水流内布袋戏台
* 猢猻入布袋 / 猢狲入布袋
* 直頭布袋 / 直头布袋
* 飼鳥鼠咬布袋 / 饲鸟鼠咬布袋 (Min Nan)
* 養老鼠咬布袋 / 养老鼠咬布袋

### Proper noun

布袋
* (～鎮) Budai (an urban township in Chiayi County, Taiwan)
* (～和尚) Budai (Chinese Buddhist monk)

### References

* “Entry #1766”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 布 | 袋 |
| ほ Grade: 5 | たい > てい Grade: S |
| kan'on | irregular |

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) ほてー [hòtéé] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [ho̞te̞ː]

### Proper noun

布(ほ)袋(てい) • (Hotei)
* (Shinto) Hotei, Budai, the fat and happy god of abundance and good health

#### Usage notes

Hotei is one of the seven gods of luck (七福神(しちふくじん) (shichi fukujin)).

#### Derived terms

* 布(ほ)袋腹(ていばら) (hoteibara, “potbelly”)
* 布袋蘭(ホテイラン) (hoteiran)

#### Related terms

* 福禄寿(ふくろくじゅ) (Fukurokuju): god of happiness, wealth and longevity
* 恵比須(えびす) (Ebisu) / 恵比寿 / 夷 / 戎: god of fishers or merchants, often depicted carrying a sea bream
* 弁才天(べんざいてん) (Benzaiten) / 弁財天: the Japanese name for the Hindu goddess Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge, art, beauty, music, language, wisdom, poetry and rivers
* 吉祥天(きっしょうてん) (Kisshōten): the goddess of happiness, charm and beauty, of fertility, nature, and of human creativity, and the patronesses of joy, amusement and festivities
* 毘沙門天(びしゃもんてん) (Bishamonten): god of warriors
* 大黒(だいこく) (Daikoku) / 大黒天(だいこくてん) (Daikokuten): the god of wealth, commerce and trade. Ebisu and Daikoku are often paired and represented as carvings or masks on the walls of small retail shops
* 寿老人(じゅろうじん) (Jurōjin): the god of longevity

#### See also

* 布袋 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{ja}$
* Hotei on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### References

* ↑ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
* ↑ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

## Korean

Hanja in this term :
| 布 | 袋 |

### Proper noun

布袋 • (Podae) (hangeul 포대)
* hanja form of 포대 (“Budai”)

## Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term :
| 布 | 袋 |

### Proper noun

布袋
* chữ Hán form of Bố Đại (“Budai”).