合法性

Chinese

		legal; lawful; legitimate legal; lawful; legitimate; grammatical	sex; nature; suffix corresponding to ‑ness or ‑ity
simp. and trad. (合法性)		合法	性

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): héfǎxìng

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ ㄈㄚˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hap⁶ faat³ sing³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ha̍p-hoat-sèng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: héfǎxìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄈㄚˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: héfǎsìng
    • Wade–Giles: ho²-fa³-hsing⁴
    • Yale: hé-fǎ-syìng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: herfaashinq
    • Palladius: хэфасин (xɛfasin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵ fä²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hap⁶ faat³ sing³
    • Yale: hahp faat sing
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hap⁹ faat⁸ sing³
    • Guangdong Romanization: heb⁶ fad³ xing³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐp̚² faːt̚³ sɪŋ³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ha̍p-hoat-sèng
    • Tâi-lô: ha̍p-huat-sìng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: habhoatsexng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hap̚⁴⁻³² huat̚³²⁻⁴ siɪŋ²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hap̚²⁴⁻² huat̚⁵⁻²⁴ siɪŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hap̚¹²¹⁻²¹ huat̚³²⁻⁵ siɪŋ²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hap̚⁴⁻³² huat̚³²⁻⁴ siɪŋ¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hap̚⁴⁻³² huat̚³²⁻⁴ siɪŋ²¹/

Noun

合法性

1. legality; lawfulness; legitimacy

Japanese

Kanji in this term
合	法	性
ごう Grade: 2	ほう Grade: 4	せい Grade: 5
on’yomi

Etymology

合法 (“legal”) +‎ 性 (“-ity”)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ごーほーせー [gòóhóóséé] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɡo̞ːho̞ːse̞ː]

Noun

合(ごう)法(ほう)性(せい) • (gōhōsei) ^{←がふはふせい (gafufafusei)?}

1. legality, lawfulness