黃粱

Chinese

		yellow	millet
trad. (黃粱)		黃	粱
simp. (黄粱)		黄	粱

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huángliáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄌㄧㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wong⁴ loeng⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huángliáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄌㄧㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huángliáng
    • Wade–Giles: huang²-liang²
    • Yale: hwáng-lyáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwangliang
    • Palladius: хуанлян (xuanljan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ li̯ɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wong⁴ loeng⁴
    • Yale: wòhng lèuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wong⁴ loeng⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wong⁴ lêng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔːŋ²¹ lœːŋ²¹/

Noun

黃粱

1. (literary) yellow and large-grained variety of Setaria italica
2. (literary, figurative) Short for 黃粱夢／黄粱梦 (huángliángmèng, “pipe dream”).

Derived terms

• 一枕黃粱 / 一枕黄粱 (yīzhěnhuángliáng)
• 夢斷黃粱 / 梦断黄粱
• 夢覺黃粱 / 梦觉黄粱
• 黃粱一夢 / 黄粱一梦 (huángliángyīmèng)
• 黃粱夢 / 黄粱梦 (huángliángmèng)