See also: 妇人

Chinese edit

woman man; person; people
trad. (婦人)
simp. (妇人)

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (3) (38)
Final () (136) (43)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter bjuwX nyin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bɨuX/ /ȵiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/biuX/ /ȵin/
Shao
Rongfen
/biəuX/ /ȵʑjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/buwX/ /ȵin/
Li
Rong
/biuX/ /ȵiĕn/
Wang
Li
/bĭəuX/ /ȵʑĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱi̯ə̯uX/ /ȵʑi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fòu rén
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fau6 jan4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
rén
Middle
Chinese
‹ bjuwX › ‹ nyin ›
Old
Chinese
/*mə.bəʔ/ (or *tsə.-? see Min) /*ni[ŋ]/
English woman, wife (other) person

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 17550 10800
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*bɯʔ/ /*njin/

Noun edit

婦人

  1. (married) woman (Classifier: ; )
  2. (archaic) wife of a yeoman ( (shì))

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic (婦人):
  • Japanese: ()(じん) (fujin)
  • Korean: 부인(婦人) (bu'in)
  • Vietnamese: phu nhân (婦人)

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: 5
じん
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

()(じん) (fujin

  1. (another person's) wife
  2. madam; ma'am

References edit

  • 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

婦人 (bu'in) (hangeul 부인)

  1. Hanja form? of 부인 (madam; ma'am).