友愛

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See also: 友爱

Chinese

		friend	to love; affection; to be fond of to love; affection; to be fond of; to like
trad. (友愛)		友	愛
simp. (友爱)		友	爱

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yǒu'ài

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˇ ㄞˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jau⁵ oi³
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yû-oi
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iú-ài

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yǒu'ài
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˇ ㄞˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yǒu-ài
  - Wade–Giles: yu³-ai⁴
  - Yale: yǒu-ài
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeouay
  - Palladius: ю’ай (ju’aj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /joʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ˀaɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: jau⁵ oi³
  - Yale: yáuh oi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁵ oi³
  - Guangdong Romanization: yeo⁵ oi³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯¹³ ɔːi̯³³/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yû-oi
  - Hakka Romanization System: iu^ˊ oi
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yiu¹ oi⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /i̯u²⁴⁻¹¹ oi̯⁵⁵/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yû-oi
  - Hakka Romanization System: (r)iu^ˊ oi
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yiu¹ oi⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯u²⁴⁻¹¹ oi̯⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iú-ài
  - Tâi-lô: iú-ài
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iwaix
  - IPA (Xiamen): /iu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ai²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /iu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ai⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /iu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ai²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /iu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ai¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /iu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ai²¹/

Adjective

友愛

loving; affectionate (between good friends or siblings)

Synonyms

友好 (yǒuhǎo)

Proper noun

友愛

(～村) You'ai (a village in Zhashan, Caidian district, Wuhan, Hubei, China)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
友	愛
ゆう Grade: 2	あい Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ゆうあい (Heiban – )^[1]
IPA^(key):

Noun

友(ゆう)愛(あい) • (yūai)

affection, friendship, brotherhood, fraternity, friendly love, fraternal love
Greek φιλία (filía) in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Derived terms

友愛数(ゆうあいすう) (yūaisū)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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