愛媛
Appearance
See also: 爱媛
Chinese
[edit]to love; affection; to be fond of to love; affection; to be fond of; to like |
a beauty | ||
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trad. (愛媛) | 愛 | 媛 | |
simp. (爱媛) | 爱 | 媛 |
Etymology
[edit]Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 愛媛 (Ehime).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄞˋ ㄩㄢˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: Àiyuán
- Wade–Giles: Ai4-yüan2
- Yale: Ài-ywán
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Ayyuan
- Palladius: Айюань (Ajjuanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ˀaɪ̯⁵¹ ɥɛn³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: oi3 wun4
- Yale: oi wùhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: oi3 wun4
- Guangdong Romanization: oi3 wun4
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɔːi̯³³ wuːn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
Proper noun
[edit]愛媛
- (~縣) Ehime (a prefecture of Japan)
Japanese
[edit]Kanji in this term | |
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愛 | 媛 |
え Grade: 4 |
ひめ Grade: 4 |
nanori | kun'yomi |
Etymology
[edit]⟨epi1me1⟩ → /epʲimʲe/ → /eɸime/ → /ehime/
From Old Japanese 愛比賣 (epi1me1, literally “loveable girl”), an epithet of Iyo Province according to the Kojiki (712 CE).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]- Short for 愛媛県 (Ehime-ken): Ehime Prefecture
- a female given name
References
[edit]- ^ Herbert E. Plutschow (1990) Chaos and Cosmos: Ritual in Early and Medieval Japanese Literature (Volume 1 of Brill's Japanese Studies Library), BRILL, →ISBN, page 76
- ^ 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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