年畫

See also: 年画

Chinese

FWOTD – 10 February 2024

		year	draw; picture; painting
trad. (年畫)		年	畫
simp. (年画)		年	画

《麒麟送子》年畫

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): niánhuà

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nin⁴ waa^6-2
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): ngian² fa⁴
• Jin (Wiktionary): nie¹ hua³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): nî-ūi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: niánhuà
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: niánhuà
    • Wade–Giles: nien²-hua⁴
    • Yale: nyán-hwà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nianhuah
    • Palladius: няньхуа (njanʹxua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni̯ɛn³⁵ xu̯ä⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: niánhuàr
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄚˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: niánhuàr
    • Wade–Giles: nien²-hua⁴-ʼrh
    • Yale: nyán-hwàr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nianhuall
    • Palladius: няньхуар (njanʹxuar)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni̯ɛn³⁵ xu̯ɑɻ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: nin⁴ waa^6-2
    • Yale: nìhn wá
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nin⁴ waa^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: nin⁴ wa^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /niːn²¹ waː²²⁻³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: ngian² fa⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋian¹¹ fa⁵³/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: nie¹ hua³
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /nie¹¹ xua⁴⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nî-ūi
    • Tâi-lô: nî-uī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ni'ui
    • IPA (Xiamen): /nĩ²⁴⁻²² ui²²/

Noun

年畫

1. New Year picture (Chinese colored woodblock print used for decoration during the Chinese New Year) (Classifier: 幅 m c; 張／张 m c)

   木版年畫／木版年画  ―  mùbǎn niánhuà  ―  Chinese New Year woodcut picture

   • 1926, 魯迅 [Lu Xun], “馬上支日記”, in 《華蓋集續編》‎^[1], page 148:

     近來確是上下同心，提倡着忠孝節義了，新年到廟市上去看年畫，便可以看見許多新製的關于這類美德的圖。 [MSC, trad.]
     近来确是上下同心，提倡着忠孝节义了，新年到庙市上去看年画，便可以看见许多新制的关于这类美德的图。 [MSC, simp.]

     Jìnlái quèshì shàngxiàtóngxīn, tíchàngzhe zhōngxiàojiéyì le, xīnnián dào miàoshì shàng qù kàn niánhuà, biàn kěyǐ kànjiàn xǔduō xīn zhì de guānyú zhè lèi měidé de tú. [Pinyin]

     Recently, everyone is certainly united in mind, advocating for loyalty, filial piety, integrity, and justice. During the New Year, when one goes to the market by the temple to look at New Year pictures, one will see many newly made pictures about such virtues.

   • 2006 [1966], 梁實秋 [Liang Shih-chiu], “北平年景”, in 雅舍小品, volume 2, Taipei County: 正中書局, →ISBN, page 158:

     牆上本來不大乾淨的，還可貼上幾張年畫，什麼「招財進寶」，「肥豬拱門」，都可以收補壁之效。 [MSC, trad.]
     墙上本来不大干净的，还可贴上几张年画，什么「招财进宝」，「肥猪拱门」，都可以收补壁之效。 [MSC, simp.]

     Qiáng shàng běnlái bùdà gānjìng de, hái kě tiēshàng jǐ zhāng niánhuà, shénme “Zhāocáijìnbǎo”, “Féizhū Gǒngmén”, dōu kěyǐ shōu bǔ bì zhī xiào. [Pinyin]

     If your wall was not too clean originally, you could post on a few New Year pictures; With "Ushering in Wealth and Prosperity", "A Fat Pig at the Door", or what not, you can effectively patch up the wall.

   • 1990, Zhan Bohui, Cheung Yat Shing, editors, 《珠江三角洲方言調查報告之三：珠江三角洲方言綜述》 [A Survey of Dialects in the Pearl River Delta, Vol. 3: A Synthetic Review], People's Publishing House of Guangdong, →ISBN, page 367:

     爸爸媽媽除咗帶住啲仔女去買新衫新鞋過年之外，仲要辦年貨。咩嘢煎堆油角啊，年糕蘿蔔糕芋頭糕啊，糖果瓜子啊，芋蝦茶泡啊噉，又要買返啲年畫揮春啊 [Cantonese, trad.]
     爸爸妈妈除咗带住啲仔女去买新衫新鞋过年之外，仲要办年货。咩嘢煎堆油角啊，年糕萝卜糕芋头糕啊，糖果瓜子啊，芋虾茶泡啊噉，又要买返啲年画挥春啊 [Cantonese, simp.]

     baa^1-4 baa¹ maa^1-4 maa¹ ceoi⁴ zo² daai³ zyu⁶ di¹ zai² neoi^5-2 heoi³ maai⁵ san¹ saam¹ san¹ haai⁴ gwo³ nin⁴ zi¹ ngoi⁶, zung⁶ jiu³ baan⁶ nin⁴ fo³. me¹ e⁵ zin¹ deoi¹ jau⁴ gok^3-2 aa³, nin⁴ gou¹ lo⁴ baak⁶ gou¹ wu⁶ tau² gou¹ aa³, tong⁴ gwo² gwaa¹ zi² aa³, wu⁶ haa¹ caa⁴ paau^3-2 aa³ gam², jau⁶ jiu³ maai⁵ faan¹ di¹ nin⁴ waa^6-2 fai¹ ceon¹ aa³ [Jyutping]

     Other than bringing their children to buy new clothes and new shoes for the New Year, Mom and Dad would have to do New Year's shopping. Things like sesame balls and fried dumplings; New Year cake, radish cake, and taro cake; sweets and melon seeds; taro shrimp fritters and assorted crispy chips; and they have to buy some New Year pictures and New Year scrolls […]

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 年畫 (“Chinese New Year picture”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		年畫
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	年畫兒
	Taiwan	年畫
Southwestern Mandarin	Chongqing	年畫兒
Cantonese	Hong Kong	年畫
Gan	Lichuan	年畫
Hakka	Meixian	年畫
Huizhou	Jixi	年畫
Jin	Taiyuan	年畫
Southern Min	Xiamen	龍船圖