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毛瓜 - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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	hair; fur; one tenth of a yuan or dollar	melon; claw; gourd melon; claw; gourd; squash
trad. (毛瓜)	毛	瓜
simp. ^#(毛瓜)	毛	瓜

Named for its fuzziness.

Mandarin
(Pinyin): máoguā

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˊ ㄍㄨㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴ gwaa¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: máoguā
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˊ ㄍㄨㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: máogua
  - Wade–Giles: mao²-kua¹
  - Yale: máu-gwā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maugua
  - Palladius: маогуа (maogua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑʊ̯³⁵ ku̯ä⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: mou⁴ gwaa¹
  - Yale: mòuh gwā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴ gwaa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴ gua¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹ kʷaː⁵⁵/

毛瓜

hairy gourd; fuzzy melon (Benincasa hispida var. chieh-qua)
- 1955 March 25, “新出毛瓜上市　青瓜陸續運來”, in 大公報, page 5:
  
  新出毛瓜已有運到，但數量並不多，昨天只有二、三百斤上市。 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
  新出毛瓜已有运到，但数量并不多，昨天只有二、三百斤上市。 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]
  san¹ ceot¹ mou⁴ gwaa¹ ji⁵ jau⁵ wan⁶ dou³, daan⁶ sou³ loeng⁶ bing⁶ bat¹ do¹, zok⁶ tin¹ zi² jau⁵ ji⁶, saam¹ baak³ gan¹ soeng⁵ si⁵. [Jyutping]
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Dialectal synonyms of 節瓜 (“hairy gourd”) [map]

冬瓜 (dōngguā)
夏南瓜 (xiànánguā)