風車

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See also: 风车

Chinese

 
wind; news; style
wind; news; style; custom; manner
 
vehicle on land; car; machine
vehicle on land; car; machine; to shape with a lathe
trad. (風車)
simp. (风车)

Pronunciation


Noun

風車

  1. windmill; wind turbine
  2. winnower
  3. pinwheel
  4. (Hokkien, Singapore Teochew) automobile; motor car; sedan
  5. (Longyan Hokkien, Datian Min) kite (toy)
  6. (Medan Hokkien) bicycle

Synonyms

  • (kite):
  • (bicycle):

Derived terms

Japanese

Etymology 1

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風車 (fūsha, kazaguruma): a windmill.
Kanji in this term
ふう
Grade: 2
しゃ
Grade: 1
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 風車 (MC pjuwng tsyhae, “wind + wheel”).

Pronunciation

Noun

(ふう)(しゃ) (fūsha

  1. a windmill (structure)
Synonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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風車 (kazaguruma): a pinwheel.
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風車 (kazaguruma): the Clematis patens flower.
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Kanji in this term
かざ
Grade: 2
くるま > ぐるま
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Compound of (kaza, wind, the older combining form) +‎ (kuruma, wheel). The kuruma changes to guruma as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

(かざ)(ぐるま) (kazaguruma

  1. a windmill (structure)
  2. a pinwheel, a toy that spins in the wind
    ね、(かぜ)()いているよ、(かざ)(ぐるま)(まわ)そう。
    Ne, kaze ga fuite iru yo, kazaguruma o mawasō.
    Hey, the wind's blowing, let's spin pinwheels.
  3. a crest in the shape of a windmill or pinwheel
  4. (figurative) economic disadvantage, a difficult life
  5. (shogi) the “windmill opening” in shogi
  6. a kind of clematis flower, the Clematis patens
Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as カザグルマ.

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 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
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

風車 (pungcha or McCune-Reischauer: p'ungch'a or Yale: phungcha) (hangeul 풍차)

  1. Hanja form? of 풍차 (windmill).