噁啥唸

[nipponman]

Hey, I was wondering about these words.

啥 I can't find meanings for this in CQuicktrans. But I think it means the same and can be used in the same way as 什麼. right?

噁 and 唸 seem to be variants of 惡 念. Or maybe a way to show a particular meaning of the latter, like 哪 does for 那,* because I can't find either character in my dictionary.

Thanks for you assistance.

*I say this because 哪 wasn't used before about 50 years ago. 那 covered its interrogative functions.

[skylee]

啥 = 甚麼

噁 (e3) as in 噁心 = sickening / disgusting / feels like throwing up

唸 (nian4) = read (aloud) / pronounce

[nipponman]

噁 (e3) as in 噁心 = sickening / disgusting / feels like throwing up

唸 (nian4) = read (aloud) / pronounce

Exactly, that is what confuses me, my dictionary says that 惡 and 念 have these meanings, not giving a thought to the other two characters.

[skylee]

Maybe if you use an older / outdated dictionary, you would find them. My old dictionary (published in 1990) has all three. It even gives a proverb 喑噁叱吒 (yin4 wu4 chi4 cha4), meaning angry roar (this is how 韓信 describes 項羽 as in 史記).

[Claw]

In simplified Chinese, I don't think the versions with the 口 radical exist... they're both just simplified to 恶 and 念.

[nipponman]

Ok, so they're actually characters, not just wierd mouth-radical spinoffs.

like 哪. Thanks, everybody.