風波

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See also: 风波

Chinese

wind; news; style
wind; news; style; custom; manner
 
 wave; (Cantonese) ball
trad. (風波) 風 波
simp. (风波) 风 波
Literally: “wind and wave”.

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 風 波
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 東 (2) 戈 (95)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division (等) III I
Fanqie 方戎切 博禾切
Baxter pjuwng pa
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pɨuŋ/ /puɑ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/piuŋ/ /puɑ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/piuŋ/ /puɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/puwŋ/ /pwa/
Li
Rong 		/piuŋ/ /puɑ/
Wang
Li 		/pĭuŋ/ /puɑ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/pi̯uŋ/ /puɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		fēng bō
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fung1 bo1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 風 波
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		fēng bō
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pjuwng › ‹ pa ›
Old
Chinese 		/*prəm/ /*pˁaj/
English wind (n.) wave (n.)

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 風 波
Reading # 1/2 1/1
No. 2921 9719
Phonetic
component 		凡 皮
Rime
group 		侵 歌
Rime
subdivision 		3 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		風 波
Old
Chinese 		/*plum/ /*paːl/

Noun

風波

  1. (figurative) disturbance; dispute; crisis
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Sino-Xenic (風波):
  • → Vietnamese: phong ba (風波)

Pronunciation 2

Verb

風波

  1. (Quanzhou Hokkien) to spread false stories; to start rumors

Pronunciation 3

Noun

風波

  1. (Eastern Min) urticaria
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 蕁麻疹 (“urticaria”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 蕁麻疹
Northeastern Mandarin Harbin 鬼風疙瘩
Central Plains Mandarin Luoyang 風圪墶
Xuzhou 鬼風疙瘩, 鬼蒙疙瘩, 滾皮疙瘩
Lanyin Mandarin Yinchuan 風片
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 風丹, 風疙瘩
Wuhan 狗風疙瘩
Jianghuai Mandarin Nanjing 風疹塊, 風疹
Yangzhou 風疹子
Cantonese Guangzhou 風赧
Hong Kong 風赧
Dongguan 風赧
Hakka Meixian 冷目
Jin Taiyuan 風疙瘩
Northern Min Jian'ou 風瘼
Eastern Min Fuzhou 風波
Southern Min Xiamen 風膜, 凊膜凹, 風瘤
Quanzhou 風膜, 風巴佬, 凊膜
Zhangzhou 凊凹
Singapore (Hokkien) 風膜, 凊膜凹, 風瘤
Leizhou 風瘤
Haikou 風瘤
Wu Shanghai 風疹塊, 風痧
Suzhou 風疹塊
Danyang 風疹塊, 風疹餅
Hangzhou 風疹塊
Ningbo 風疹塊
Wenzhou 風疸
Xiang Changsha 風它
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