川楝子

Chinese

		river; creek; plain river; creek; plain; an area of level country; Sichuan province (abbrev.)	Melia japonica	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
simp. and trad. (川楝子)		川	楝	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chuānliànzǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄢ ㄌㄧㄢˋ ㄗˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chuānliànzǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄢ ㄌㄧㄢˋ ㄗˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chuanliànzǐh
    • Wade–Giles: chʻuan¹-lien⁴-tzŭ³
    • Yale: chwān-lyàn-dž
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuanlianntzyy
    • Palladius: чуаньляньцзы (čuanʹljanʹczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵ li̯ɛn⁵¹ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Noun

川楝子

1. seed of the chinaberry (Melia azedarach) (a herb used in traditional Chinese medicine to "activate qi")

Synonyms

• 苦楝子 (kǔliànzǐ)

References

• 川楝子 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh
• Nigel Wiseman, "English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary of Chinese Medicine", 1995. →ISBN.