新聞

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See also: 新闻

Chinese

new; newly; meso- (chem.)
 
hear; news; celebrated
hear; news; celebrated; sniff at
trad. (新聞) 新 聞
simp. (新闻) 新 闻

Pronunciation

Noun

新聞

  1. (countable, uncountable) news (reports of current events) (Classifier: 條／条 m; 件 m c; 宗 c; 單／单 c)
    上新聞／上新闻  ―  shàng xīnwén  ―  to make news
    國營新聞媒體／国营新闻媒体  ―  guóyíng xīnwén méitǐ  ―  state-run news media
    新聞標題／新闻标题  ―  xīnwén biāotí  ―  news headlines
  2. (archaic) recent events
  3. (archaic) new knowledge

Usage notes

新聞／新闻 (xīnwén) refers news as in reports of current events; to express the sense of news as in new information in general, use 消息 (xiāoxi).

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Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Zhuang: sinhvwnz

See also

Japanese

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ja
Kanji in this term
新 聞
しん
Grade: 2 		ぶん
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology 1

From Middle Chinese 新聞 (MC sin mjun). Compare modern Hokkien reading sin-bûn.

Pronunciation

Noun

新(しん)聞(ぶん) • (shinbun) 

  1. (archaic) news
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Originally clipping of 新聞紙 (shinbunshi)

Pronunciation

Noun

新(しん)聞(ぶん) • (shinbun) 

  1. newspaper

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ^ 1922, 言(げん)泉(せん) : 日(にっ)本(ぽん)大(だい)辞(じ)典(てん). 第(だい)3(さん)巻(かん)
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term
新聞

Noun

新聞 • (sinmun or McCune-Reischauer: sinmun or Yale: sinmun) (hangeul 신문)

  1. Hanja form? of 신문 (“newspaper”).

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
新聞

Noun

新聞

  1. chữ Hán form of tân văn (“newspaper”).
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