花魁
Appearance
Chinese
[edit]flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern |
chief; head | ||
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trad. (花魁) | 花 | 魁 | |
simp. #(花魁) | 花 | 魁 |
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚ ㄎㄨㄟˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: huakuéi
- Wade–Giles: hua1-kʻuei2
- Yale: hwā-kwéi
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huakwei
- Palladius: хуакуй (xuakuj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /xu̯ä⁵⁵ kʰu̯eɪ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: faa1 fui1
- Yale: fā fūi
- Cantonese Pinyin: faa1 fui1
- Guangdong Romanization: fa1 fui1
- Sinological IPA (key): /faː⁵⁵ fuːi̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
[edit]花魁
- queen of flowers, referring especially to plum blossom
- (literary, historical) the most famous courtesan in a brothel; famous prostitute
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Japanese
[edit]Kanji in this term | |
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花 | 魁 |
おいらん | |
Grade: 1 | Jinmeiyō |
jukujikun |
Etymology
[edit]/oira no/ → /oiran/
A contraction of 己等 (oira, first-person pronoun) + の (no, possessive particle). Young assistants used to call their elder courtesans 己等の (oira no), an ellipse for 己等の姉さん (oira no nēsan, literally "my elder sister").[1]
The kanji spelling is jukujikun (熟字訓), borrowed from Chinese 花魁 (huākuí).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (archaic, slang) an oiran (elder courtesan in Edo-period Yoshiwara)
- any high-ranking courtesan
- Synonym: 太夫 (tayū)
- a prostitute
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: oiran
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Tày
[edit]Noun
[edit]花魁 (hoa khôi)
References
[edit]- Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày][1] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
Vietnamese
[edit]chữ Hán Nôm in this term | |
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花 | 魁 |
Noun
[edit]花魁
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