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Chinese
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yellow
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fountain; spring
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trad. (黃泉)
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黃
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泉
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simp. (黄泉)
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黄
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泉
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Literally: “yellow spring”.
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Etymology
According to Chinese folklore, water appears yellow in color when it is underground. This became representative of the underworld due to its location under the earth and the practice of burial in Chinese culture.
Pronunciation
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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黃
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泉
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Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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huáng
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quán
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Middle Chinese
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‹ hwang ›
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‹ dzjwen ›
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Old Chinese
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/*N-kʷˁaŋ/
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/*s-N-ɢʷar/ (MC I!)
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English
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yellow
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spring, source
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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.
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Noun
黃泉
- underground spring
夫蚓,上食槁壤,下飲黃泉。
夫蚓,上食槁壤,下饮黄泉。 - From: Mencius, c. 4th century BCE
- Fú yǐn, shàng shí gǎorǎng, xià yǐn huángquán.
- Now, an earthworm eats the dry mould above, and drinks the yellow spring below.
- (figuratively, dated) underworld; the land of the dead
Synonyms
- (underworld): (figuratively, euphemism, colloquial, jocular) 老家 (lǎojiā), 陰間/阴间 (yīnjiān), (dated) 地府 (dìfǔ)
Derived terms
Descendants
Others:
Japanese
For pronunciation and definitions of 黃泉 – see the following entry.
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(This term, 黃泉, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)
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Korean
Noun
黃泉 • (hwangcheon) (hangeul 황천)
- hanja form? of 황천 (“underworld”)
Old Japanese
Etymology
From Proto-Japonic *yəməy.
The kanji spelling is an orthographic borrowing from Middle Chinese 黃泉 (MC hwang dzjwen, literally “yellow springs”), incorporating the underworld from Chinese mythology.
Noun
黃泉 (*yo2mi2) (kana よみ)
- (Shinto mythology) the land of the dead, afterworld, underworld
Coordinate terms
- 葦原の中つ國 (asipara no2 nakatukuni)
- 高天原 (takama no2 para)
Derived terms
- 黃泉つ (yo2mo2 tu)
- 蘇る (yo2mi2gape1ru)
- 黃泉路 (yo2mi2di)
Descendants
Vietnamese
Noun
黃泉
- chữ Hán form of hoàng tuyền (“underworld”)