風船
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風船 (fūsen): a bunch of balloons.
Chinese
wind; news; style wind; news; style; custom; manner |
a boat; vessel; ship | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (風船) | 風 | 船 | |
| simp. (风船) | 风 | 船 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄈㄥ ㄔㄨㄢˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: fongchuán
- Wade–Giles: fêng1-chʻuan2
- Yale: fēng-chwán
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fengchwan
- Palladius: фэнчуань (fɛnčuanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /fɤŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än³⁵/
- (Dungan)
- Cyrillic and Wiktionary: фынчуан (fɨnčuan, I-I)
- Sinological IPA (key): /fəŋ²⁴ ʈ͡ʂʰuæ̃²⁴/
- (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: fung1 syun4
- Yale: fūng syùhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: fung1 syn4
- Guangdong Romanization: fung1 xun4
- Sinological IPA (key): /fʊŋ⁵⁵ syːn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
風船
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 飛機 (“airplane”)
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 風 | 船 |
| ふう Grade: 2 |
せん Grade: 2 |
| goon | kan'on |
Etymology
Appears to be a coinage in Japanese from Middle Chinese-derived roots, as a compound of 風 (fū, “wind”) + 船 (sen, “ship, boat, vessel”).
First cited to a text from 1860.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
Derived terms
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Palauan: huseng
References
Korean
| Hanja in this term | |
|---|---|
| 風 | 船 |