See also: 风水

Chinese

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wind; news; style
wind; news; style; custom; manner
 
water; river
trad. (風水)
simp. (风水)
Literally: “wind and water”.
 
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Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial () (1) (26)
Final () (2) (18)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter pjuwng sywijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pɨuŋ/ /ɕˠiuɪX/
Pan
Wuyun
/piuŋ/ /ɕʷᵚiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/piuŋ/ /ɕiuɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/puwŋ/ /ɕjwiX/
Li
Rong
/piuŋ/ /ɕjuiX/
Wang
Li
/pĭuŋ/ /ɕwiX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pi̯uŋ/ /ɕwiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fēng shuǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fung1 seoi2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
fēng shuǐ
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjuwng › ‹ sywijX ›
Old
Chinese
/*prəm/ /*s.turʔ/ (E dialect: *-r > *-j)
English wind (n.) water; river

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
No. 2921 11948
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*plum/ /*qʰʷljilʔ/

Noun

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風水

  1. (literally) wind and water; wind and rain
  2. feng shui (a Chinese system of geomancy)
  3. (Hakka, Southern Min) tomb
  4. (Zhejiang Wu) typhoon

Synonyms

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  • (typhoon):

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (風水):

Others:

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
ふう
Grade: 2
すい
Grade: 1
on’yomi
 風水 on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology

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From Chinese 風水风水.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(ふう)(すい) (fūsui

  1. (literal) wind and water
  2. feng shui

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Korean

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Hanja in this term

Noun

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風水 (pungsu) (hangeul 풍수)

  1. Hanja form? of 풍수 (feng shui).

Vietnamese

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chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

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風水

  1. chữ Hán form of phong thuỷ (feng shui).