光年

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Chinese

		light	year
simp. and trad. (光年)		光	年

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Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): guāngnián

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄤㄋㄧㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gwong¹ nin⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kong-liân

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: guāngnián
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄤㄋㄧㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: guangnián
  - Wade–Giles: kuang¹-nien²
  - Yale: gwāng-nyán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guangnian
  - Palladius: гуаннянь (guannjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ ni̯ɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: gwong¹ nin⁴
  - Yale: gwōng nìhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gwong¹ nin⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: guong¹ nin⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɔːŋ⁵⁵ niːn²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kong-liân
  - Tâi-lô: kong-liân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: konglieen
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² liɛn²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔŋ³³ liɛn²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² liɛn¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ liɛn²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ liɛn²³/

Classifier

光年

(astronomy) light year

Japanese

光年 on Japanese Wikipedia

Light-year on Wikipedia

Kanji in this term
光	年
こう Grade: 2	ねん Grade: 1
on'yomi

Etymology

Appears to be a calque of English light year.

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) こーねん (Heiban – )^[1]^[2]
(Tokyo) こーねん (Atamadaka – )^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key):

Noun

光(こう)年(ねん) • (kōnen) ^{←くわうねん (kwaunen)^?}

(astronomy) a light year

Counter

光(こう)年(ねん) • (-kōnen) ^{←くわうねん (-kwaunen)^?}

(astronomy) light year
宇(う)宙(ちゅう)の直(ちょっ)径(けい)は約(やく) 930(きゅうひゃくさんじゅう)億(おく)光(こう)年(ねん)だ。
Uchū no chokkei wa yaku kyūhyakusanjū-oku kōnen da.
The diameter of the universe is some 93 billion light years.
- 1988 July 30 [1984 July 25], Fujiko F. Fujio, “ニューイヤー星(せい)調(ちょう)査(さ)行(こう) [Expedition to Planet New Year]”, in ポストの中の明日 [Post-Mid-Tomorrow] (藤子不二雄少年SF短編集; 2), 10th edition, volume 2 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 73:
  
  地(ち)球(きゅう)自(じ)身(しん)すでに銀(ぎん)河(が)系(けい)の外(はず)れにあるといえるが、そこからさらに六(ろく)万(まん)光(こう)年(ねん)渦(か)分(ぶん)子(し)の先(さき)っぽに……、ロルカル系(けい)第(だい)三(さん)惑(わく)星(せい)「ニューイヤー」がある。
  Chikyū jishin sude ni Gingakei no hazure ni aru to ieru ga, soko kara sara ni rokuman kōnen kabunshi no sakippo ni……, Rorukaru-kei dai-san wakusei “Nyū Iyā” ga aru.
  Earth is essentially situated in the extremity of the Milky Way, sixty thousand light years from which, at the tip of the vortex molecules..., is “New Year”, the third planet of the Lorcal system.

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

“光年”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, “Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014
“光年”, in 世界大百科事典第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
“光年”, in 日本大百科全書：ニッポニカ (Nippon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica, “Encyclopedia Nipponica”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 1984

Korean

Hanja in this term
光	年

Noun

光年 • (gwangnyeon) (hangeul 광년)

hanja form^? of 광년 (“light year”)

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