靈擎

Chinese

		alert; departed soul; efficacious alert; departed soul; efficacious; quick; effective; intelligence	phonetic
trad. (靈擎)		靈	擎
simp. (灵擎)		灵	擎

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: leng⁴ keng⁴
  - Yale: lèhng kèhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: leng⁴ keng⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: léng⁴ kéng⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɛːŋ²¹ kʰɛːŋ²¹/
Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: liang² kiang²
  - Sinological IPA: /liaŋ¹¹ cʰiaŋ¹¹/

靈擎

(Cantonese, Hakka) effective; efficacious
呢隻感冒藥都幾靈擎喎，食咗兩劑當堂舒服啲。 [Cantonese, trad.]
呢只感冒药都几灵擎㖞，食咗两剂当堂舒服啲。 [Cantonese, simp.]
ni¹ zek³ gam² mou⁶ joek⁶ dou¹ gei² leng⁴ keng⁴ wo³, sik⁶ zo² loeng⁵ zai¹ dong¹ tong⁴ syu¹ fuk⁶ di¹. [Jyutping]
This cold medication is quite effective. After a couple of doses, I immediately felt much better.

Dialectal synonyms of 靈驗 (“effective; efficacious”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		靈
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		靈驗, 靈
Mandarin	Taiwan	靈驗
	Wanrong	靈
	Xi'an	靈, 靈應
	Yangzhou	靈, 靈光
Cantonese	Guangzhou	靈擎
	Hong Kong	靈, 靈擎
	Taishan	靈
	Dongguan	靈擎
Gan	Lichuan	靈
Gan	Pingxiang	靈
Hakka	Meixian	靈擎, 靈驗
Huizhou	Jixi	靈, 靈光
Northern Min	Jian'ou	靈感, 靈
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	靈, 靈影
Southern Min	Xiamen	靈聖
	Quanzhou	靈聖
	Zhangzhou	靈聖
	Tainan	靈聖
	Singapore (Hokkien)	靈
	Shantou	靈驗, 靈
	Leizhou	靈
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	靈
Wu	Shanghai	靈, 靈光, 靈泛
	Shanghai (Chongming)	靈
	Suzhou	靈
	Danyang	靈光
	Hangzhou	靈
	Ningbo	靈
	Wenzhou	靈, 靈光

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