訂婚

See also: 订婚

Chinese edit

	to agree; to conclude; to draw up to agree; to conclude; to draw up; to subscribe to (a newspaper, etc.); to order	to marry; marriage; wedding to marry; marriage; wedding; to take a wife
trad. (訂婚)	訂	婚
simp. (订婚)	订	婚
alternative forms	定婚

Pronunciation edit

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): dìnghūn

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄥˋ ㄏㄨㄣ

(Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): din⁴ hun¹
Cantonese (Jyutping): ding⁶ fan¹, ding³ fan¹
Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): dang⁴ fun¹
Eastern Min (BUC): déng-*huŏng
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tēng-hun
Wu (Wugniu)
- (Northern): ⁵tin-huen

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dìnghūn
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄥˋ ㄏㄨㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dìnghun
  - Wade–Giles: ting⁴-hun¹
  - Yale: dìng-hwūn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dinqhuen
  - Palladius: динхунь (dinxunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiŋ⁵¹ xu̯ən⁵⁵/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: din⁴ hun¹
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: dinxun
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tin²¹³ xuən⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ding⁶ fan¹, ding³ fan¹
  - Yale: dihng fān, ding fān
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ding⁶ fan¹, ding³ fan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ding⁶ fen¹, ding³ fen¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɪŋ²² fɐn⁵⁵/, /tɪŋ³³ fɐn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: dang⁴ fun¹
  - Sinological IPA: /taŋ⁵³ fun⁴⁴/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: déng-*huŏng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiŋ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ huoŋ⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tēng-hun
  - Tâi-lô: tīng-hun
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dexnghwn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tiɪŋ²²⁻²¹ hun⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɪŋ⁴¹⁻²² hun³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɪŋ²²⁻²¹ hun⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tiɪŋ³³⁻¹¹ hun⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɪŋ³³⁻²¹ hun⁴⁴/
Wu
- (Shanghai):
  - Wugniu: ⁵tin-huen
  - MiniDict: tin^去 huen
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tin-hun
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /tin³³ huən⁴⁴/

Verb edit

訂婚

to get engaged; to be betrothed

Synonyms edit

定親／定亲 (dìngqīn)
(originally literary, now used figuratively) 文定 (wéndìng)
(Sichuan) 下定 (xiàdìng)
(Hakka) 過定／过定
(Hokkien) 定著／定着

Derived terms edit

訂婚戒指／订婚戒指
訂婚指環／订婚指环 (dìnghūn zhǐhuán)