文集

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Chinese

language; culture; writing
language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle
 
 to gather; to collect; collected works
trad. (文集) 文 集
simp. #(文集) 文 集
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Pronunciation

Noun

文集

  1. collected works

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (文集):
  • → Japanese: 文集(ぶんしゅう) (bunshū)
  • → Korean: 문집(文集) (munjip)

Proper noun

文集

  1. (～鎮) Wenji (a town in Zhongxiang, Jingmen, Hubei, China)
  2. (～社區) Wenji (a residential community of Wenji, Zhongxiang, Jingmen, Hubei, China)
  3. (～村) Wenji (a village in Wenji, Zhongxiang, Jingmen, Hubei, China)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
文 集
ぶん
Grade: 1 		しゅう
Grade: 3
kan'on

*/bunsipu/ → /bunɕiɸu/ → /bunɕiu/ → /bunɕuː/

From Middle Chinese 文集 (MC mjun dzip). The kan'on, so a relatively more recent borrowing than the monjū reading. Compare modern Min Nan reading 文集 (bûn-chi̍p).

The spelling appears as early as the late 900s. However, the reading at that time is uncertain, and may have been either bunshū or monjū.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

文(ぶん)集(しゅう) • (bunshū) ←ぶんしふ (bunsifu)?

  1. an anthology (collection of written works)
Derived terms

Proper noun

文(ぶん)集(しゅう) • (Bunshū) ←ぶんしふ (Bunsifu)?

  1. (rare) Short for 白氏文集 (Hakushi Bunshū): a collection of Chinese poetry completed in 845 CE

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
文 集
もん
Grade: 1 		じゅう
Grade: 3
goon

*/monzipu/ → /monʑiɸu/ → /monʑiu/ → /mond͡ʑuː/

Abbreviation of 白氏文集 (Hakushi Monjū), in turn from 白氏文集 (MC baek dzyeX mjun dzip). The goon, so presumably an older borrowing. However, research since the 1980s suggests that the Monjū reading may have been a hypercorrection arising during the Meiji Period, and that the title was actually read as Bunshū before then.[5]

This reading appears to be archaic.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

文(もん)集(じゅう) • (Monjū) ←もんじふ (Monzifu)?

  1. (archaic, possibly obsolete) Short for 白氏文集 (Hakushi Monjū): a collection of Chinese poetry completed in 845 CE

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. ^ 日本では従来「はくしもんじゅう」と呼びならわされてきたが、近年の研究により鎌倉期以降明治20年頃まで「－ぶんしゅう」であり、「－もんじゅう」は明治以後に生じた慣用であることが指摘されている。神鷹徳治「『文集』は〈もんじゅう〉か〈ぶんしゅう〉か」『東書国語』289・290、1988・1989ほか。 (in Japanese)

Korean

Hanja in this term
文集

Noun

文集 • (munjip) (hangeul 문집)

  1. hanja form? of 문집 (“collected works”)
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