幻影

Chinese edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): huànyǐng

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

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 edit

幻影

phantom; vision; illusion

Japanese edit

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

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

(Tokyo) げんえー [gèń'éé] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɡẽ̞ɰ̃e̞ː]

Noun edit

幻(げん)影(えい) • (gen'ei)

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 [Illusionist No Face]”, 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.
the image of something, such as in a memory or imagination
(medicine) a phantom, a phantasm: a perception of something that is not there