話本

Chinese

		spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said	roots or stems of plants; origin; source roots or stems of plants; origin; source; this; the current; root; foundation; basis; (a measure word)
trad. (話本)		話	本
simp. (话本)		话	本

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huàběn

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄅㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waa⁶ bun²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ōe-pún / ōa-pún

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huàběn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄅㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huàběn
    • Wade–Giles: hua⁴-pên³
    • Yale: hwà-běn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huahbeen
    • Palladius: хуабэнь (xuabɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵¹ pən²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waa⁶ bun²
    • Yale: wah bún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waa⁶ bun²
    • Guangdong Romanization: wa⁶ bun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː²² puːn³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ōe-pún
    • Tâi-lô: uē-pún
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oexpuon
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ue⁴¹⁻²² pun⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ōa-pún
    • Tâi-lô: uā-pún
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oaxpuon
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ua²²⁻²¹ pun⁵³/

Noun

話本

1. printed versions of the prompt-books used by popular storytellers in the Song dynasty and Yuan dynasty