# 地理先生
## Chinese

| | | geography; geographical features; topography | one who was born earlier; mister; sirone who was born earlier; mister; sir; gentleman |
| trad. (地理先生) | trad. (地理先生) | 地理 | 先生 |
| simp. $^#$(地理先生) | simp. $^#$(地理先生) | 地理 | 先生 |

### Pronunciation

* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): thi-lî-sîn-sâng
    (Hailu, HRS): ti$^˖$ li$^ˋ$ sin$^ˋ$ sang$^ˋ$
    (Meixian, Guangdong): ti$^4$ li$^3$ xin$^1$ sang$^1$
* Eastern Min (BUC): dî-lī-sĭng-năng
* Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): di$^5$ li$^3$ sienn$^1$ sen
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thi-lî-sîn-sâng
*** Hakka Romanization System: ti li$^ˊ$ xin$^ˊ$ sang$^ˊ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: ti$^4$ li$^1$ xin$^1$ sang$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /tʰi⁵⁵ li²⁴⁻¹¹ sin²⁴⁻¹¹ saŋ²⁴/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: ti$^˖$ li$^ˋ$ sin$^ˋ$ sang$^ˋ$
*** Sinological IPA: /tʰi³³ li⁵³ sin⁵³ saŋ⁵³/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: ti$^4$ li$^3$ xin$^1$ sang$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /tʰi⁵³⁻⁵⁵ li³¹ sin⁴⁴ saŋ⁴⁴/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: dî-lī-sĭng-năng
*** Sinological IPA : /ti²⁴²⁻⁵³ l̃i³³⁽⁻²¹⁾ $^{(s-)}$liŋ⁵⁵ nˡaŋ⁵⁵/
* Xiang
** (Changsha)
*** Wiktionary: di$^5$ li$^3$ sienn$^1$ sen
*** Sinological IPA (old-style): /ti²¹⁻¹¹ li⁴¹ si̯ẽ³³ sən³/
*** Sinological IPA (new-style): /ti²¹⁻¹¹ li⁴¹ ɕi̯ẽ³³ sən³/

### Noun

地理先生
* (Pingxiang Gan, Hakka, Huizhou, Eastern Min, Southern Pinghua, Xiang) fengshui master; geomancer

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 風水先生, 風水師, 堪輿家, 堪輿師 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 風水師, 風水先生 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 風水先生, 風水仙 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xuzhou | 陰陽先生, 陰陽先兒 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Ürümqi | 風水先生 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 陰陽先生, 陰陽 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guiyang | 陰陽先生 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liuzhou | 風水佬 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 陰陽先生 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 風水佬 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 風水佬, 風水師 |
| Gan | Pingxiang | 地理先生 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 風水先生, 地理先生 |
| Hakka | Yudu | 地理先生 |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 風水先生 |
| Hakka | Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 風水先生 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 風水先生 |
| Hakka | Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 風水先生 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 風水先生 |
| Hakka | Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 地理先生 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 地理先生 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 陰陽先生, 陰陽匠, 風水先生 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 地理先生 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 風水仙, 地理師, 地理仙, 牽羅經 dated |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 風水仙, 牽羅經 dated, 牽經 dated |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 風水仙, 地理仙, 堪輿仙, 牽羅經 dated |
| Southern Min | Taipei | 風水仙, 地理仙 |
| Southern Min | New Taipei (Sanxia) | 地理仙, 牽羅經 |
| Southern Min | Kaohsiung | 地理師 |
| Southern Min | Yilan | 風水仙, 牽羅經 |
| Southern Min | Changhua (Lukang) | 風水師 |
| Southern Min | Taichung | 風水仙, 仙的 |
| Southern Min | Tainan | 地理師, 風水仙 |
| Southern Min | Hsinchu | 風水仙 |
| Southern Min | Kinmen | 風水仙 |
| Southern Min | Penghu (Magong) | 風水仙 |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 風水佬, 地理先生 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 風水先生, 風鑒先生 dated |
| Wu | Danyang | 冷先生, 風水先生 |
| Wu | Hangzhou | 風水先生, 陰陽先生 |
| Wu | Ningbo | 風水先生 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 風水先生 |
| Wu | Jinhua | 風水先生 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 地神先生, 地理先生 |

### References

* “Entry #1587”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.