軒轅
Chinese
editcovered carriage; pavilion | shafts of cart; yamen | ||
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trad. (軒轅) | 軒 | 轅 | |
simp. (轩辕) | 轩 | 辕 |
Etymology
edit- personal name, toponym
This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “"Chariot Frame" < "axle & shafts" (Huainanzi, Major's 2010 translation, ch. 3, n. 11) seems to be a folk etymology” |
- tall gate
This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Semantically related to 轅門/辕门 (yuánmén)?” |
Pronunciation
edit- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢ ㄩㄢˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: syuanyuán
- Wade–Giles: hsüan1-yüan2
- Yale: sywān-ywán
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuanyuan
- Palladius: сюаньюань (sjuanʹjuanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɕy̯ɛn⁵⁵ ɥɛn³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: hin1 jyun4
- Yale: hīn yùhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: hin1 jyn4
- Guangdong Romanization: hin1 yun4
- Sinological IPA (key): /hiːn⁵⁵ jyːn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
- Middle Chinese: xjon hjwon
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰa[r] [ɢ]ʷa[n]/
- (Zhengzhang): /*qʰan ɢʷan/
Noun
edit軒轅
- (literary) tall gate
- 秦成,則高臺榭,美宮室,聽竽瑟之音,前有樓闕軒轅,後有長姣美人,國被秦患而不與其憂。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
- Qín chéng, zé gāo táixiè, měi gōngshì, tīng yúsè zhī yīn, qián yǒu lóuquè xuānyuán, hòu yǒu chángjiāo měirén, guó bèi qín huàn ér bù yǔ qí yōu. [Pinyin]
- If Qin'd succeed, they'd surely [have] lofty steeples and beautiful palaces; they could listen to the sounds of flutes and zithers; they'd have high towers and tall gates at the front; they'd have fine, pretty, fair beauties in the back; their countries being imperiled by Qin still would not worry them at all.
秦成,则高台榭,美宫室,听竽瑟之音,前有楼阙轩辕,后有长姣美人,国被秦患而不与其忧。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
Proper noun
edit軒轅
- (mythology) Xuanyuan, said to be the given name of the legendary Yellow Emperor
- (mythology) name of a hill
- (mythology) name of a nation west of ancient China
- (uranography) Xuanyuan, an asterism in the Chinese constellation of Star
- a surname
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