發昏

See also: 发昏

Chinese

		to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop	muddle-headed; twilight; to faint muddle-headed; twilight; to faint; to lose consciousness
trad. (發昏)		發	昏
simp. (发昏)		发	昏

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fāhūn

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄚ ㄏㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faat³ fan¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoat-hun

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fāhūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄚ ㄏㄨㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fahun
    • Wade–Giles: fa¹-hun¹
    • Yale: fā-hwūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fahuen
    • Palladius: фахунь (faxunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fä⁵⁵ xu̯ən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faat³ fan¹
    • Yale: faat fān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faat⁸ fan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fad³ fen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːt̚³ fɐn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoat-hun
    • Tâi-lô: huat-hun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoathwn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /huat̚⁵⁻²⁴ hun³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /huat̚³²⁻⁴ hun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huat̚³²⁻⁵ hun⁴⁴/

Verb

發昏

1. to feel giddy; to become dizzy; to reel
2. to lose one's head; to become confused

   • 「他總仍舊是偷。這一回，是自己發昏，竟偷到丁舉人家裡去了。他家的東西，偷得的麼？」 [MSC, trad.]
     「他总仍旧是偷。这一回，是自己发昏，竟偷到丁举人家里去了。他家的东西，偷得的么？」 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1919, Lu Xun, 孔乙己 (Kung I-chi)

     “tā zǒng réngjiù shì tōu. Zhè yī huí, shì zìjǐ fāhūn, jìng tōu dào Dīng jǔrén jiā lǐ qù le. Tā jiā de dōngxi, tōu de de me?” [Pinyin]

     "He was stealing again. This time he was fool enough to steal from Mr. Ting, the provincial scholar! As if anybody could get away with that!"

Derived terms

• 發昏章第十一 / 发昏章第十一 (fāhūn zhāng dì shíyī)