行列

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Chinese

 
to go; to do; capable
to go; to do; capable; all right; competent; OK; to travel; temporary; to walk; will do; behaviour; conduct; a row; profession; professional
 
to arrange; to line up; row
to arrange; to line up; row; file; series
trad. (行列) 行 列
simp. #(行列) 行 列

Pronunciation

Noun

行列

  1. row or column
  2. ranks; procession; rows
    加入他們的行列 [MSC, trad.]
    加入他们的行列 [MSC, simp.]
    jiārù tāmen de hángliè
    to join them

Derived terms

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
行 列
ぎょう
Grade: 2 		れつ
Grade: 3
goon kan’on

Etymology

From Old Japanese, in turn from Middle Chinese 行列 (MC haeng ljet). First attested in Japanese in 749.

The date of the mathematical sense is uncertain. Matrices for calculation were long known in Chinese mathematics, and were used to solve systems of linear equations in the work 九章算術／九章算术 (“The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art”), compiled from the 10th through the 2nd centuries BCE. The component terms 行 and 列 (liè) are both used in that text, but not in the particular combination of 行列 (hángliè) (see also Wikisource). The first Japanese work on this aspect of mathematics was a 1683 text by 関孝和 (Seki Takakazu), but it is not yet clear if this text includes the term 行列 (gyōretsu) with the sense of matrix.

Pronunciation

Noun

行(ぎょう)列(れつ) • (gyōretsu) ←ぎやうれつ (gyauretu)?

  1. a line or queue, a procession in single file
  2. a ceremonial procession
    Synonym: 鹵簿 (robo)
  3. (mathematics) a matrix

Verb

行(ぎょう)列(れつ)する • (gyōretsu suru) ←ぎやうれつ (gyauretu)?suru (stem 行(ぎょう)列(れつ)し (gyōretsu shi), past 行(ぎょう)列(れつ)した (gyōretsu shita))

  1. to form a line, to proceed in single file

References

  1. ^ “行列”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  4. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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