望洋

Chinese

		hope; expect; to visit hope; expect; to visit; to gaze (into the distance); look towards; towards	ocean; foreign
trad. (望洋)		望	洋
simp. #(望洋)		望	洋
alternative forms		望羊 望佯 望陽／望阳

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wàngyáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄤˋ ㄧㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mong⁶ joeng⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wàngyáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄤˋ ㄧㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wàngyáng
    • Wade–Giles: wang⁴-yang²
    • Yale: wàng-yáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wanqyang
    • Palladius: ванъян (vanʺjan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɑŋ⁵¹ jɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mong⁶ joeng⁴
    • Yale: mohng yèuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mong⁶ joeng⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mong⁶ yêng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɔːŋ²² jœːŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: mjangH yang

Rime
Character	望	洋
Reading #	2/2	1/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	陽 (106)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	巫放切	與章切
Baxter	mjangH	yang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mʉɐŋH/	/jɨɐŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/mʷiɐŋH/	/jiɐŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/miuɑŋH/	/iɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/muaŋH/	/jɨaŋ/
Li Rong	/miuaŋH/	/iaŋ/
Wang Li	/mĭwaŋH/	/jĭaŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/miwaŋH/	/i̯aŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wàng	yáng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mong6	joeng4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*maŋ-s  ɢ(r)aŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*maŋs  laŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	望	洋
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wàng	yáng
Middle Chinese	‹ mjangH ›	‹ yang ›
Old Chinese	/*maŋ-s/	/*ɢ(r)aŋ/
English	look at from a distance	"great expanse of water"
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	望	洋
Reading #	2/2	2/2
No.	12686	14536
Phonetic component	亡	羊
Rime group	陽	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	妄	陽
Old Chinese	/*maŋs/	/*laŋ/

Adjective

望洋

1. (literary) looking upwards; looking into the distance

Derived terms

• 望洋興嘆／望洋兴叹 (wàngyángxīngtàn)
• 望洋驚嘆／望洋惊叹