# 冬粉
## Chinese

* 冬粉

### Etymology

Hokkien 冬粉 (tang-hún), also historically written as 東粉 / 东粉 (tang-hún), is historically an ellipsis of 山東粉 / 山东粉 (soaⁿ-tang-hún) as per Ogawa (1932).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): dōngfěn
    (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄥ ㄈㄣˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): dung$^1$ fan$^2$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tang-hún
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: dōngfěn
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄥ ㄈㄣˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: dongfěn
*** Wade–Giles: tung$^1$-fên$^3$
*** Yale: dūng-fěn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dongfeen
*** Palladius: дунфэнь (dunfɛnʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /tʊŋ⁵⁵ fən²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: dung$^1$ fan$^2$
*** Yale: dūng fán
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dung$^1$ fan$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: dung$^1$ fen$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /tʊŋ⁵⁵ fɐn³⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tang-hún
*** Tâi-lô: tang-hún
*** Phofsit Daibuun: danghuon
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /taŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hun⁴¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /taŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hun⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /taŋ³³ hun⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /taŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hun⁵³/

### Noun

冬粉
* (chiefly Hokkien, Taiwan, Singapore) vermicelli cellophane noodles (historically made from mung bean starch) (Classifier: 把)

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 粉絲 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 粉, 粉絲 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 粉絲, 冬粉 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Harbin | 粉絲 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Singapore | 冬粉 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 細粉條兒, 粉絲 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 粉絲, 粉絲子 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 粉絲兒 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 粉絲 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 粉絲, 粉絲兒 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xining | 粉絲兒 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xuzhou | 細粉 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 粉絲 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Lanzhou | 粉絲子 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Ürümqi | 粉絲兒 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 粉絲, 粉, 粉條, 條粉 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 線粉, 粉條 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guilin | 粉絲 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liuzhou | 粉絲 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 粉絲, 索粉 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 粉絲, 索粉 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Hefei | 粉絲 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 粉絲 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 粉絲 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong (San Tin; Weitou) | 來絲, 粉仔 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong (Kam Tin; Weitou) | 粉絲 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong (Ting Kok) | 來絲仔 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau) | 粉仔 |
| Cantonese | Macau | 粉絲 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Panyu) | 粉絲 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu) | 粉絲 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Conghua) | 粉絲 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Zengcheng) | 粉絲 |
| Cantonese | Foshan | 粉絲 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai) | 粉仔 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Shunde) | 粉絲 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Sanshui) | 粉絲 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming) | 粉絲 |
| Cantonese | Zhongshan (Shiqi) | 粉絲 |
| Cantonese | Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou) | 珍絲 |
| Cantonese | Zhuhai (Doumen) | 粉絲 |
| Cantonese | Jiangmen (Baisha) | 粉絲 |
| Cantonese | Jiangmen (Xinhui) | 粉絲 |
| Cantonese | Taishan | 細粉 |
| Cantonese | Kaiping (Chikan) | 細粉 |
| Cantonese | Enping (Niujiang) | 細粉 |
| Cantonese | Heshan (Yayao) | 粉絲 |
| Cantonese | Dongguan | 來絲 |
| Cantonese | Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an) | 粉絲 |
| Cantonese | Yangjiang | 鬚粉 |
| Cantonese | Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) | 粉絲, 冬粉 |
| Cantonese | Singapore (Guangfu) | 粉絲 |
| Gan | Nanchang | 線粉 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 粉絲, 麵線 |
| Hakka | Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua) | 粉絲 |
| Hakka | Dongguan (Qingxi) | 來絲 |
| Hakka | Shenzhen (Shatoujiao) | 粉絲 |
| Hakka | Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui) | 粉仔 |
| Hakka | Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua) | 米絲 |
| Hakka | Yudu | 粉絲 |
| Hakka | Hong Kong | 來絲仔 |
| Hakka | Senai (Huiyang) | 冬粉 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 粉絲 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 粉絲, 細粉, 細粉絲 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 粉絲子 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 粉絲, 山東粉 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 粉絲, 山東粉 |
| Eastern Min | Fuqing | 山東粉 |
| Eastern Min | Matsu | 山東粉 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 冬粉, 粉絲 |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 冬粉 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 冬粉, 粉仔 |
| Southern Min | Penang (Hokkien) | 冬粉 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Hokkien) | 冬粉 |
| Southern Min | Manila (Hokkien) | 冬粉, 山東粉 |
| Southern Min | Chaozhou | 粉絲 |
| Southern Min | Jieyang | 粉條, 粉絲 |
| Southern Min | Johor Bahru (Teochew) | 豆簽, 冬粉 |
| Zhongshan Min | Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi) | 珍絲 |
| Zhongshan Min | Zhongshan (Sanxiang) | 珍絲 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 線粉, 粉絲 |
| Wu | Shanghai (Chongming) | 索粉, 線粉 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 線粉, 索粉 wet |
| Wu | Danyang | 索粉 |
| Wu | Hangzhou | 線粉 |
| Wu | Ningbo | 線粉 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 洋粉 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 湘粉, 粉絲, 南粉, 西粉 less common |
| Xiang | Shuangfeng | 南粉 |
| Xiang | Hengyang | 粉絲 |

#### Descendants

* → English: tang hoon
* → Malay: tanghun

### Further reading

* 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “東粉”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎ (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
* 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “山東粉”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎ (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC