See also: 新闻

Chinese edit

new; newly; meso- (chem.)
 
hear; news; celebrated
hear; news; celebrated; sniff at
trad. (新聞)
simp. (新闻)

Pronunciation edit


Noun edit

新聞

  1. (countable, uncountable) news (reports of current events) (Classifier: m;  m c;  c;  c)
    新聞新闻  ―  shàng xīnwén  ―  to make news
    國營新聞媒體国营新闻媒体  ―  guóyíng xīnwén méitǐ  ―  state-run news media
    新聞標題新闻标题  ―  xīnwén biāotí  ―  news headlines
  2. (archaic) recent events
  3. (archaic) new knowledge

Usage notes edit

新聞新闻 (xīnwén) refers news as in reports of current events; to express the sense of news as in new information in general, use 消息 (xiāoxi).

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Descendants edit

  • Zhuang: sinhvwnz

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Japanese edit

 
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Kanji in this term
しん
Grade: 2
ぶん
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Chinese 新聞 (MC sin mjun). Compare modern Hokkien reading sin-bûn.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(しん)(ぶん) (shinbun

  1. (archaic) news
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Etymology 2 edit

Originally clipping of 新聞紙 (shinbunshi)[4]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(しん)(ぶん) (shinbun

  1. newspaper

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 3.0 3.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ^ 1922, (げん)(せん) : (にっ)(ぽん)(だい)()(てん). (だい)3(さん)(かん)
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean edit

Hanja in this term

Noun edit

新聞 (sinmun or McCune-Reischauer: sinmun or Yale: sinmun) (hangeul 신문)

  1. Hanja form? of 신문 (newspaper).

Vietnamese edit

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun edit

新聞

  1. chữ Hán form of tân văn (newspaper).