行列

Chinese

		to go; to do; capable to go; to do; capable; all right; competent; OK; to travel; temporary; to walk; will do; behaviour; conduct; a row; profession; professional	to arrange; to line up; row to arrange; to line up; row; file; series
trad. (行列)		行	列
simp. #(行列)		行	列

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hángliè

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄤˊ ㄌㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hong⁴ lit⁶

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): hòng-lie̍t
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hâng-lia̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hángliè
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄤˊ ㄌㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hángliè
    • Wade–Giles: hang²-lieh⁴
    • Yale: háng-lyè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: harnglieh
    • Palladius: ханле (xanle)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑŋ³⁵ li̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hong⁴ lit⁶
    • Yale: hòhng liht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hong⁴ lit⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hong⁴ lid⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːŋ²¹ liːt̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hòng-lie̍t
    • Hakka Romanization System: hong^ˇ lied
    • Hagfa Pinyim: hong² liad⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /hoŋ¹¹ li̯et̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hâng-lia̍t
    • Tâi-lô: hâng-lia̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hangliat
    • IPA (Xiamen): /haŋ²⁴⁻²² liɛt̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /haŋ²⁴⁻²² liɛt̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /haŋ¹³⁻²² liɛt̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /haŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ liɛt̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /haŋ²³⁻³³ liɛt̚⁴/

Noun

行列

1. row or column
2. ranks; procession; rows

   加入他們的行列 [MSC, trad.]
   加入他们的行列 [MSC, simp.]

   jiārù tāmen de hángliè [Pinyin]

   to join them

Derived terms

• 行列式 (hánglièshì)
• 隊伍行列／队伍行列

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
行	列
ぎょう Grade: 2	れつ Grade: 3
goon	kan'on

Etymology

From Old Japanese, in turn from Middle Chinese 行列 (MC haeng ljet). First attested in Japanese in 749.

The date of the mathematical sense is uncertain. Matrices for calculation were long known in Chinese mathematics, and were used to solve systems of linear equations in the work 九章算術／九章算术 (“The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art”), compiled from the 10th through the 2nd centuries BCE. The component terms 行 and 列 (liè) are both used in that text, but not in the particular combination of 行列 (hángliè) (see also Wikisource). The first Japanese work on this aspect of mathematics was a 1683 text by 関孝和 (Seki Takakazu), but it is not yet clear if this text includes the term 行列 (gyōretsu) with the sense of matrix.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ぎょーれつ [gyòórétsú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɡʲo̞ːɾe̞t͡sɨ]

Noun

行(ぎょう)列(れつ) • (gyōretsu) ^{←ぎやうれつ (gyauretu)?}

1. [from 1870s] a line or queue, a procession in single file
2. [from 749] a ceremonial procession

   Synonym: 鹵簿 (robo)

3. [date uncertain] (mathematics) a matrix

Verb

行(ぎょう)列(れつ)する • (gyōretsu suru) ^{←ぎやうれつ (gyauretu)?}suru (stem 行(ぎょう)列(れつ)し (gyōretsu shi), past 行(ぎょう)列(れつ)した (gyōretsu shita))

1. [from 1870s] to form a line, to proceed in single file

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.