幻影

Chinese

		fantasy	picture; image; reflection picture; image; reflection; shadow
simp. and trad. (幻影)		幻	影

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huànyǐng

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄢˋ ㄧㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waan⁶ jing²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoān-éng / hoàn-éng / hoān-iáⁿ / hoàn-iáⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huànyǐng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄢˋ ㄧㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huànyǐng
    • Wade–Giles: huan⁴-ying³
    • Yale: hwàn-yǐng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huannyiing
    • Palladius: хуаньин (xuanʹin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯än⁵¹ iŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waan⁶ jing²
    • Yale: waahn yíng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waan⁶ jing²
    • Guangdong Romanization: wan⁶ ying²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːn²² jɪŋ³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoān-éng
    • Tâi-lô: huān-íng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoaxn'eang
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /huan⁴¹⁻²² iɪŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /huan²²⁻²¹ iɪŋ⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoàn-éng
    • Tâi-lô: huàn-íng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoarn'eang
    • IPA (Taipei): /huan¹¹⁻⁵³ iɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan²¹⁻⁵³ iɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan²¹⁻⁴¹ iɪŋ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoān-iáⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: huān-iánn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoaxn'viar
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /huan⁴¹⁻²² iã⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /huan²²⁻²¹ iã⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoàn-iáⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: huàn-iánn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoarn'viar
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan²¹⁻⁴¹ iã⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan²¹⁻⁵³ iã⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /huan¹¹⁻⁵³ iã⁵³/

Noun

幻影

1. phantom; vision; illusion

Japanese

Kanji in this term
幻	影
げん Grade: S	えい Grade: S
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 幻影 (gwæn ʔjæng^X, literally “illusion, mirage + shadow”). Compare Mandarin 幻影 (huànyǐng).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) げんえー [gèń'éé] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɡẽ̞ɰ̃e̞ː]

Noun

幻(げん)影(えい) • (gen'ei) 

1. an illusion, a vision
   • 2000 January 27, “幻想師(イリュージョニスト)・ノー・フェイス”, in Vol.7, Konami:

     幻(げん)影(えい)を見(み)せ、ひらりと攻(こう)撃(げき)をかわす。

     Gen'ei o mise, hirari to kōgeki o kawasu.

     It nimbly evades attacks with its illusions.

2. the image of something, such as in a memory or imagination
3. (medicine) a phantom, a phantasm: a perception of something that is not there

Synonyms

• 幻(まぼろし) (maboroshi)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 幻影化(げんえいか) (gen'eika): (medicine) to phantomize
• 幻影肢(げんえいし) (gen'eishi): (medicine) a phantom limb
• 幻影視(げんえいし) (gen'eishi): (medicine, rare) phantasmoscopy, phantasmoscopia: seeing phantoms

Korean

Hanja in this term
幻	影

Noun

幻影 • (yeonghyang) (hangeul 환영)

1. hanja form^? of 환영 (“illusion”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
幻	影

Noun

幻影

1. chữ Hán form of ảo ảnh (“mirage”).