鳳凰男

Chinese

		fenghuang; the "Chinese phoenix"; phoenix	male
trad. (鳳凰男)		鳳凰	男
simp. (凤凰男)		凤凰	男
Literally: “phoenix man”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fènghuángnán

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄥˋ ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄋㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fung⁶ wong⁴ naam⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fènghuángnán → fènghuangnán (toneless variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄥˋ ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄋㄢˊ → ㄈㄥˋ ˙ㄏㄨㄤ ㄋㄢˊ (toneless variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fònghuångnán
    • Wade–Giles: fêng⁴-huang⁵-nan²
    • Yale: fèng-hwang-nán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fenq.hwangnan
    • Palladius: фэнхуаннань (fɛnxuannanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɤŋ⁵¹ xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ nän³⁵/ → /fɤŋ⁵¹ xu̯ɑŋ¹ nän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fung⁶ wong⁴ naam⁴
    • Yale: fuhng wòhng nàahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fung⁶ wong⁴ naam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: fung⁶ wong⁴ nam⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊŋ²² wɔːŋ²¹ naːm²¹/

Noun

鳳凰男

1. (neologism) man from the countryside who moves to the city (usually through admission into a university), becomes successful and usually marries an urban girl

See also

• 孔雀女 (kǒngquènǚ, “‘peacock woman’; an urban woman who marries the formerly rural ‘phoenix man’”)