波浪

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Chinese

		wave; (Cantonese) ball	wave; breaker; unrestrained wave; breaker; unrestrained; dissipated
simp. and trad. (波浪)		波	浪

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bōlàng

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄛㄌㄤˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bo¹ long⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pô-long
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): pho-lōng / po-lōng

(Teochew, Peng'im): bo¹ lang⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bōlàng
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄛㄌㄤˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bolàng
  - Wade–Giles: po¹-lang⁴
  - Yale: bwō-làng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bolanq
  - Palladius: болан (bolan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ⁵⁵ lɑŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bo¹ long⁶
  - Yale: bō lohng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bo¹ long⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: bo¹ long⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔː⁵⁵ lɔːŋ²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pô-long
  - Hakka Romanization System: bo´ long
  - Hagfa Pinyim: bo¹ long⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /po²⁴⁻¹¹ loŋ⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pho-lōng
  - Tâi-lô: pho-lōng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: phoilong
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰo³³ lɔŋ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰo⁴⁴⁻²² lɔŋ²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pʰo⁴⁴⁻³³ lɔŋ³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ lɔŋ³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: po-lōng
  - Tâi-lô: po-lōng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: poilong
  - IPA (Xiamen): /po⁴⁴⁻²² lɔŋ²²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bo¹ lang⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: po lăng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /po³³⁻²³ laŋ³⁵/

Noun

波浪

wave (moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid)

Synonyms

波濤／波涛 (bōtāo)
波瀾／波澜 (bōlán) (literary)
浪子 (nang⁴ zi³) (Sichuanese)
浪濤／浪涛 (làngtāo)

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
波	浪
は Grade: 3	ろう Grade: S
on’yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) はろー (Heiban – )
IPA^(key):

Noun

波(は)浪(ろう) • (harō)

waves

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ 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

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