抑是

Chinese

		to restrain; to restrict; to keep down to restrain; to restrict; to keep down; or	be; yes; this
simp. and trad. (抑是)		抑	是
alternative forms		啊是 阿是 也是 益是

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yìshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ ㄕˋ

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): a̍h-sī / á-sǐ / ia̍h-sī / iah-sī / ah-sī

  (Teochew, Peng'im): a¹ si⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yìshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yìshìh
    • Wade–Giles: i⁴-shih⁴
    • Yale: yì-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yihshyh
    • Palladius: иши (iši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, variant in Taiwan, Penang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: a̍h-sī
    • Tâi-lô: a̍h-sī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: aqsi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /a(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ si²²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /a(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ si²²/
    • IPA (Penang): /a(ʔ)⁴⁻³ si²¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /a(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ si³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /a(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ si³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: á-sǐ
    • Tâi-lô: á-sǐ
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /a⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ si²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ia̍h-sī
    • Tâi-lô: ia̍h-sī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iaqsi
    • IPA (Taipei): /ia(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ si³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ia(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ si³³/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iah-sī
    • Tâi-lô: iah-sī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iahsi
    • IPA (Taipei): /ia(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ si³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ia(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ si³³/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ah-sī
    • Tâi-lô: ah-sī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ahsi
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /a(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ si³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /a(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ si³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: a¹ si⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: a sĭ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /a³³⁻²³ si³⁵/

Conjunction

抑是

1. (literary or Southern Min) or

   好抑是毋好 [Hokkien]  ―  hó ia̍h-sī m̄ hó [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  okay or not okay

   你欲食麵抑是米粉？ [Hokkien, trad.]
   你欲食面抑是米粉？ [Hokkien, simp.]

   Lí beh chia̍h mī a̍h-sī bí-hún? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   Do you want to eat wheat noodles or rice noodles?

   • 汝覺得呾潮州話在新加坡應唔應該流傳下去？啊是華人呾華語就夠了？ [Teochew, trad.]
     汝觉得呾潮州话在新加坡应唔应该流传下去？啊是华人呾华语就够了？ [Teochew, simp.]

     From: 2015, Li Wei, Multilingualism in the Chinese Diaspora Worldwide: Transnational Connections and Local Social Realities, Routledge →ISBN, page 209

     Do you think Teochew language should be preserved in Singapore or is Mandarin good enough? ^[sic]

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 還是 (“or”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		抑, 或
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		抑或, 還是
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	還是
	Singapore	還是
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	還是
Cantonese	Guangzhou	定係, 定
	Hong Kong	定係, 定, 抑或, 抑或係, 定抑或, 定抑或係, 還是, 定還是, 定還是係
	Taishan	毋, 毋又, 抑或
	Singapore (Guangfu)	定, 定係
Gan	Nanchang	還是
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	還係, 也係
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	還係, 也係
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	還係, 也係
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	還係, 也係
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	還係, 也係
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	抑係
Huizhou	Jixi	還是
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	故是
Southern Min	Xiamen	抑是, 抑
	Quanzhou	抑是, 抑
	Zhangzhou	抑是, 抑
	Taipei	抑是
	Penang (Hokkien)	抑是
	Singapore (Hokkien)	抑是
	Manila (Hokkien)	抑是
	Chaozhou	抑是
	Singapore (Teochew)	抑是
Wu	Shanghai	還是
Xiang	Loudi	還是

See also

• 也是
• 猶是／犹是

Further reading

• “Entry #3250”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.