名詞

See also: 名词

Chinese

		name; fame; to describe name; fame; to describe; place	word; phrase; classical Chinese poem
trad. (名詞)		名	詞
simp. (名词)		名	词

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): míngcí

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄘˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ming⁴ ci⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): miàng-chhṳ̀
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): bêng-sîr / miâ-sû / bêng-sû

  (Teochew, Peng'im): mêng⁵ se⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: míngcí
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄘˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: míngcíh
    • Wade–Giles: ming²-tzʻŭ²
    • Yale: míng-tsź
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mingtsyr
    • Palladius: минцы (mincy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ³⁵ t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ming⁴ ci⁴
    • Yale: mìhng chìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ming⁴ tsi⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ming⁴ qi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɪŋ²¹ t͡sʰiː²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: miàng-chhṳ̀
    • Hakka Romanization System: miangˇ ciiˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: miang² ci²
    • Sinological IPA: /mi̯aŋ¹¹ t͡sʰɨ¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bêng-sîr
    • Tâi-lô: bîng-sîr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² sɯ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: miâ-sû
    • Tâi-lô: miâ-sû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: miasuu
    • IPA (Taipei): /miã²⁴⁻¹¹ su²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /miã²³⁻³³ su²³/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bêng-sû
    • Tâi-lô: bîng-sû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bengsuu
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɪŋ²³⁻³³ su²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɪŋ¹³⁻²² su¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² su²⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /biɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ su²⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mêng⁵ se⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mêng sṳ̂
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /meŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ sɯ⁵⁵/

Noun

名詞

1. (grammar) noun
2. term; expression; phrase

   • 全地球都要捲進這兩個戰線中去，在今後的世界中，「中立」只是騙人的名詞。 [MSC, trad.]
     全地球都要卷进这两个战线中去，在今后的世界中，“中立”只是骗人的名词。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1940, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《新民主主義論》 (On New Democracy), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Quán dìqiú dōu yào juǎn jìn zhè liǎng gè zhànxiàn zhōng qù, zài jīnhòu de shìjiè zhōng, “zhōnglì” zhǐ shì piànrén de míngcí. [Pinyin]

     The whole world will be swept into one or the other of these two fronts, and "neutrality" will then be merely a deceptive term.

3. (philosophy) name; concept

Derived terms

• 代名詞／代名词 (dàimíngcí)
• 具體名詞／具体名词 (jùtǐ míngcí)
• 動名詞／动名词 (dòngmíngcí)
• 名詞化／名词化 (míngcíhuà)
• 名詞片語／名词片语 (míngcí piànyǔ)
• 名詞短語／名词短语 (míngcí duǎnyǔ)
• 名詞類別／名词类别 (míngcí lèibié)

• 固有名詞／固有名词 (gùyǒu míngcí)
• 專有名詞／专有名词 (zhuānyǒu míngcí)
• 抽象名詞／抽象名词 (chōuxiàng míngcí)
• 新名詞／新名词 (xīnmíngcí)
• 普通名詞／普通名词 (pǔtōng míngcí)
• 集合名詞／集合名词 (jíhé míngcí)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (名詞):

• → Japanese: 名(めい)詞(し) (meishi)
• → Korean: 명사(名詞) (myeongsa)
• → Vietnamese: danh từ (名詞)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
名	詞
めい Grade: 1	し Grade: 6
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) めーし [mèéshí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [me̞ːɕi]

Noun

名(めい)詞(し) • (meishi) 

1. (grammar) noun

Related terms

• 普通名詞(ふつうめいし) (futsūmeishi): common noun
• 固有名詞(こゆうめいし) (koyūmeishi): proper noun
• 代名詞(だいめいし) (daimeishi): pronoun
• 一般名詞(いっぱんめいし) (ippanmeishi): common noun

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term
名	詞

Noun

名詞 • (myeongsa) (hangeul 명사)

1. Hanja form^? of 명사 (“noun”).

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this term
名	詞

Noun

名詞

1. chữ Hán form of danh từ (“noun”).