語感

See also: 语感

Chinese

		speech; language; dialect speech; language; dialect; tell to	to feel; to move; to touch to feel; to move; to touch; to affect
trad. (語感)		語	感
simp. (语感)		语	感

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǔgǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˇ ㄍㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁵ gam²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǔgǎn [Phonetic: yúgǎn]
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˇ ㄍㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǔgǎn
    • Wade–Giles: yü³-kan³
    • Yale: yǔ-gǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeugaan
    • Palladius: юйгань (jujganʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y²¹⁴⁻³⁵ kän²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyu⁵ gam²
    • Yale: yúh gám
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁵ gam²
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁵ gem²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː¹³ kɐm³⁵/

Noun

語感

1. Sprachgefühl; one's instinctive feel for a language; one's intuitive sense of a language

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (語感):

• → Japanese: 語感(ごかん) (gokan)
• → Korean: 어감(語感) (eogam)
• → Vietnamese: ngữ cảm (語感)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
語	感
ご Grade: 2	かん Grade: 3
on'yomi

Noun

語(ご)感(かん) • (gokan) 

1. Sprachgefühl: a sense of language.

   著者(ちょしゃ)とは言(い)うのに、語感(ごかん)はなかなか鈍(にぶ)いさ。

   Chosha to wa iu noni, gokan wa nakanaka nibui sa.

   He may be an author, but his sense of the language / command of nuance is really lacking.

2. The nuance of a word; the feeling of a word; the feel of a word.

References

• “語感”, in Kotobank‎^[1] (in Japanese), 2011 August 19 (last accessed)

Korean

Hanja in this term
語	感

Noun

語感 • (eogam) (hangeul 어감)

1. hanja form^? of 어감 (“Sprachgefühl”)