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Chinese

not have limit; bound
trad. (無限) 無 限
simp. (无限) 无 限
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Pronunciation

Rime
Character 無 限
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 虞 (24) 山 (73)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division (等) III II
Fanqie 武夫切 胡簡切
Baxter mju heanX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mɨo/ /ɦˠɛnX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mio/ /ɦᵚænX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mio/ /ɣænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/muə̆/ /ɦəɨnX/
Li
Rong 		/mio/ /ɣɛnX/
Wang
Li 		/mĭu/ /ɣænX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/mi̯u/ /ɣănX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		wú xiàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mou4 haan6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 無 無 無 限
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		wú wú wú xiàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mju › ‹ mju › ‹ mju › ‹ hɛnX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ma/ /*ma/ /*mo/ /*ˁrəʔ/
English not have volitional prefix don’t obstacle, limit

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 無 限
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 13117 3916
Phonetic
component 		無 艮
Rime
group 		魚 文
Rime
subdivision 		0 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		無 限
Old
Chinese 		/*ma/ /*ɡrɯːnʔ/

Adjective

無限

  1. boundless; immeasurable; infinite; limitless; unlimited
    前途無限／前途无限  ―  qiántú wúxiàn  ―  bright future (literally, “one's future is infinite”)
    無限可能／无限可能  ―  wúxiàn kěnéng  ―  infinite possibilities
    無限流量套餐／无限流量套餐  ―  wúxiàn liúliàng tàocān  ―  unlimited data plan

Noun

無限

  1. infinity

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Descendants

Sino-Xenic (無限):

Japanese

Kanji in this term
無 限
む
Grade: 4 		げん
Grade: 5
goon

Etymology

May be a learned borrowing from Chinese 無限／无限 (wúxiàn, literally “without + limit”). First cited to 1881 in the 哲学字彙 (Tetsugaku Jii, “Philosophical Vocabulary”) as a translation of English infinite.

Pronunciation

Adjective

無(む)限(げん) • (mugen) -na (adnominal 無(む)限(げん)な (mugen na), adverbial 無(む)限(げん)に (mugen ni))

  1. unlimited, infinite, endless

Inflection

Inflection of 無限
Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形) 無限だろ むげんだろ mugen daro
Continuative (連用形) 無限で むげんで mugen de
Terminal (終止形) 無限だ むげんだ mugen da
Attributive (連体形) 無限な むげんな mugen na
Hypothetical (仮定形) 無限なら むげんなら mugen nara
Imperative (命令形) 無限であれ むげんであれ mugen de are
Key constructions
Informal negative 無限ではない
無限じゃない 		むげんではない
むげんじゃない 		mugen de wa nai
mugen ja nai
Informal past 無限だった むげんだった mugen datta
Informal negative past 無限ではなかった
無限じゃなかった 		むげんではなかった
むげんじゃなかった 		mugen de wa nakatta
mugen ja nakatta
Formal 無限です むげんです mugen desu
Formal negative 無限ではありません
無限じゃありません 		むげんではありません
むげんじゃありません 		mugen de wa arimasen
mugen ja arimasen
Formal past 無限でした むげんでした mugen deshita
Formal negative past 無限ではありませんでした
無限じゃありませんでした 		むげんではありませんでした
むげんじゃありませんでした 		mugen de wa arimasen deshita
mugen ja arimasen deshita
Conjunctive 無限で むげんで mugen de
Conditional 無限なら（ば） むげんなら（ば） mugen nara (ba)
Provisional 無限だったら むげんだったら mugen dattara
Volitional 無限だろう むげんだろう mugen darō
Adverbial 無限に むげんに mugen ni
Degree 無限さ むげんさ mugensa

Antonyms

Noun

無(む)限(げん) • (mugen) 

  1. (philosophy, general) infinity, unlimitedness, endlessness
    無(む)限(げん)に廻(めぐ)るもの、ウラモグ
    Mugen ni Megurumono, Uramogu
    Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  2. (mathematics) infinity

See also

References

  1. ^ “無限”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. ^ Inoue, Tetsujirō (1881) 哲学字彙‎, University of Tokyo, page 44
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. ^ 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

Korean

Hanja in this term
無限

Noun

無限 • (muhan) (hangeul 무한)

  1. Hanja form? of 무한 (“infinity”).

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
無限

Adjective

無限

  1. chữ Hán form of vô hạn (“infinite; unlimited; boundless”).
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