芙女星

Chinese

			female; woman; daughter	star; satellite; small amount
trad. (芙女星)		芙	女	星
simp. #(芙女星)		芙	女	星

Etymology

The first character, 芙 (fú), references the idiom 出水芙蓉 (chūshuǐfúróng, “a beautiful woman in a pool of water”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Fúnǚxīng

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ ㄋㄩˇ ㄒㄧㄥ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Fúnǚxīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ ㄋㄩˇ ㄒㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Fúnyǔsing
    • Wade–Giles: Fu²-nü³-hsing¹
    • Yale: Fú-nyǔ-syīng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Fwuneushing
    • Palladius: Фунюйсин (Funjujsin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵⁵/

Proper noun

芙女星

1. (astronomy) 13 Egeria

References

• 芙女星 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh