A Hokkien phrase which means 不好意思 or a feeling of embarrassment.

Kia meaning hokkien. Eh why today boss bin chow chow one ah Dunno lei. Hokkien literally means crazy. Now everybody becomes gong gong.

Names of places edit Various place names in Malaysia contain the word Keling for historical reasons eg. Tanjong Keling 20 Kampong Keling 21 and Bukit Keling etc. MP Lee Bee Wah uses Hokkien phrase Si Gui Kia to label ungrateful Sporeans raises eyebrows.

Translated it means dont defer your debts till the next year. And similarly you may have also heard of the term Ah Sia Kia being used to describe a rich mans offspring kia in Hokkien means childchildren. If its kiá then it means lets go.

I grew up speaking Mandarin Taiwanese Hokkien and English. Mai Khiam Kuay Ni is a Hokkien saying uttered before Chinese New Year. Mai Khiam Kuay Ni.

It depends on the intonation of the word kia really. The Hokkien and Teochew suffixes -a and -kia are diminutives that are generally used to refer to non-Chinese ethnic groups while the Cantonese -yan means people. What it means.

Ti Kong Provider of bread. Hokkien is Singapores Major Chinese Dialect Gong Kia roughly means Stupid Fool Siao Kia roughly means Crazy Fool I almost fell off my chair laughing like a Siao Kia. Literal translation from Hokkien to mean afraid of losing out.