瘋癲

See also: 疯癫

Chinese

		insane; mad; wild	convulsions; crazy
trad. (瘋癲)		瘋	癲
simp. (疯癫)		疯	癫
alternative forms		瘋顛／疯颠

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fēngdiān

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄥ ㄉㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fung¹ din¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hong-tian

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fēngdiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄥ ㄉㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fongdian
    • Wade–Giles: fêng¹-tien¹
    • Yale: fēng-dyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fengdian
    • Palladius: фэндянь (fɛndjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɤŋ⁵⁵ ti̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fung¹ din¹
    • Yale: fūng dīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fung¹ din¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fung¹ din¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊŋ⁵⁵ tiːn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hong-tian
    • Tâi-lô: hong-tian
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hongdiefn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tiɛn⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔŋ³³ tiɛn³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tiɛn⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tiɛn⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tiɛn⁴⁴/

Verb

瘋癲

1. to be insane; to be crazy; to be mad

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 瘋 (“mad; crazy; insane”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		痴, 狂, 癲
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		瘋, 狂, 瘋癲, 瘋狂
Mandarin	Beijing	瘋
	Taiwan	瘋
	Yantai (Muping)	痴
	Luoyang	瘋
	Xi'an	瘋
	Ürümqi	瘋
	Guiyang	瘋
	Liuzhou	癲
	Yangzhou	瘋
	Singapore	神經病, 有毛病
Cantonese	Guangzhou	癲, 黐線, 黐筋, 黐孖筋, short
	Hong Kong	癲, 黐線, 黐筋, 黐孖筋, 黐膠花, short, 黐總掣, 黐大掣
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	癲, 黐線
	Penang (Guangfu)	癲, 黐線
	Singapore (Guangfu)	癲, 黐線
Gan	Nanchang	瘋
Hakka	Meixian	癲
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	癲
Southern Min	Xiamen	痟
	Quanzhou	痟
	Yongchun	痟
	Zhangzhou	痟, 魔
	Zhao'an	痟
	Tainan	痟
	Penang (Hokkien)	痟
	Singapore (Hokkien)	痟
	Manila (Hokkien)	痟
	Chaozhou	痟
	Shantou	痟
	Shantou (Chenghai)	痟
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	痟
	Jieyang	痟
	Haifeng	癲
	Singapore (Teochew)	痟
	Leizhou	痟神
	Wenchang	發痟
	Singapore (Hainanese)	發痟
Wu	Shanghai	痴
	Shanghai (Chongming)	痴
	Danyang	瘋
	Hangzhou	瘋
	Wenzhou	癲
	Jinhua	癲
Xiang	Loudi	瘋

• 瘋魔／疯魔 (fēngmó)

Derived terms

• 瘋瘋癲癲／疯疯癫癫 (fēngfengdiāndiān)

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
瘋	癲
ふう Hyōgaiji	てん Hyōgaiji
goon

Alternative spelling
風癲

Etymology

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 瘋癲 (*pɨuŋ ten, literally “insane + crazy”). First appears in 1374.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ふうてん [fùútéń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝːtẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

瘋(ふう)癲(てん) • (fūten) 

1. insanity, mental illness; more specifically, of the varieties of acquired mental illness, those forms of insanity marked by confused speech, clouded consciousness, and emotional outbursts

   Synonym: 癲狂 (tenkyō)

2. (offensive) an insane person
3. a vagabond, a wanderer

   Synonym: 流浪者 (rurōsha)

   瘋癲(ふうてん)の寅(とら)さん

   fūten no tora-san

   the vagabond Tora

Derived terms

• 瘋(ふう)癲(てん)病(びょう)院(いん) (fūten byōin): an asylum, a mental hospital