大腹皮

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	abdomen; stomach; belly	leather; skin; fur
trad. (大腹皮)		大	腹	皮
simp. #(大腹皮)		大	腹	皮

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàfùpí

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄈㄨˋ ㄆㄧˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàfùpí
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄈㄨˋ ㄆㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàfùpí
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-fu⁴-pʻi²
    • Yale: dà-fù-pí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahfuhpyi
    • Palladius: дафупи (dafupi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ fu⁵¹ pʰi³⁵/

Noun

大腹皮

1. The pericarp of the betel nut or Areca catechu. (An herb used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat water retention in the leg and fungal infection in the digestive tract.)

See also

• 药材 (yàocái) (medicinal materials of traditional Chinese medicine)

References

• 大腹皮 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh
• Nigel Wiseman, "English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary of Chinese Medicine", 1995. →ISBN.
• http://www.nciku.com/