範疇

See also: 範畴, and 范畴

Chinese

		model	arable fields; cultivated field; class arable fields; cultivated field; class; category
trad. (範疇)		範	疇
simp. (范畴)		范	畴

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 範(はん)疇(ちゅう) (hanchū).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fànchóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄢˋ ㄔㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faan⁶ cau⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoǎn-tiû / hoān-tiû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fànchóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˋ ㄔㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fànchóu
    • Wade–Giles: fan⁴-chʻou²
    • Yale: fàn-chóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fannchour
    • Palladius: фаньчоу (fanʹčou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰoʊ̯³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faan⁶ cau⁴
    • Yale: faahn chàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faan⁶ tsau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: fan⁶ ceo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn²² t͡sʰɐu̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoǎn-tiû
    • Tâi-lô: huǎn-tiû
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /huan²² tiu²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoān-tiû
    • Tâi-lô: huān-tiû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoaxndiuu
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan²²⁻²¹ tiu¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /huan³³⁻¹¹ tiu²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /huan²²⁻²¹ tiu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan³³⁻²¹ tiu²³/

Noun

範疇

1. conceptual category; scope; domain
2. (category theory) category

Synonyms

• (scope):

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• 圈子 (quānzi) (figurative)
• 幅度 (fúdù)
• 範圍／范围 (fànwéi)
• 規模／规模 (guīmó)

 

Derived terms

• 範疇論／范畴论 (fànchóulùn)
• 詞彙範疇／词汇范畴 (cíhuì fànchóu)

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
範	疇
はん Grade: S	ちゅう Hyōgai
kan'on

Alternative spelling
範畴 (extended shinjitai)

Etymology

The word is translated from Greek κατηγορία (katigoría), which was borrowed by Japanese philosopher Inoue Tetsujirō in the 1881 work 哲学字彙 (Tetsugaku Jii, “Dictionary of Philosophy”) as a translation of English category, based on the phrase 洪範九疇 in the Book of Documents (《尚書》 or 《書經》》).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) はんちゅう [hàńchúú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [hã̠ɲ̟t͡ɕɨː]

Noun

範(はん)疇(ちゅう) • (hanchū) ^{←はんちう (fantiu)?}

1. category

   Synonym: カテゴリー (kategorī)

   • 1927, Sakutarō Hagiwara, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke no shi‎^[2]:

     彼(かれ)は果(はた)して詩(し)人(じん)だらうか？　それとも所謂(いはゆる)小(せう)説(せつ)家(か)の範(はん)疇(ちう)だらうか？

     Kare wa hatashite shijin darō ka? Sore tomo iwayuru shōsetsuka no hanchū darō ka?

     Is he a poet or in the category of so-called novelists?

Descendants

• → Chinese: 範疇／范畴 (fànchóu)

Korean

Hanja in this term
範	疇

Noun

範疇 • (beomju) (hangeul 범주)

1. hanja form^? of 범주 (“category”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
範	疇

Noun

範疇

1. chữ Hán form of phạm trù (“category”).