未婚

Chinese

		not yet; 8th earthly branch; 1–3 p.m.	to marry; marriage; wedding to marry; marriage; wedding; to take a wife
trad. (未婚)		未	婚
simp. #(未婚)		未	婚

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wèihūn

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˋ ㄏㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁶ fan¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): bī-hun

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bhuê⁷ hung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wèihūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˋ ㄏㄨㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wèihun
    • Wade–Giles: wei⁴-hun¹
    • Yale: wèi-hwūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: weyhuen
    • Palladius: вэйхунь (vɛjxunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯⁵¹ xu̯ən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mei⁶ fan¹
    • Yale: meih fān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁶ fan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: méi⁶ fen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mei̯²² fɐn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bī-hun
    • Tâi-lô: bī-hun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bixhwn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bi²²⁻²¹ hun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bi⁴¹⁻²² hun³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bi²²⁻²¹ hun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bi³³⁻¹¹ hun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bi³³⁻²¹ hun⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bhuê⁷ hung¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: buē hung
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /bue¹¹ huŋ³³/

Adjective

未婚

1. (attributive) unmarried

Antonyms

• 已婚 (yǐhūn)

Derived terms

• 未婚夫 (wèihūnfū)
• 未婚妻 (wèihūnqī)

 

See also

• 單身／单身 (dānshēn)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
未	婚
み Grade: 4	こん Grade: S
on’yomi

Noun

未(み)婚(こん) • (mikon) 

1. being unmarried and never having been married before

Usage notes

• Used attributively as a noun, taking the possessive particle の (no).

Antonyms

• 既(き)婚(こん) (kikon, “married”)

Korean

Hanja in this term
未	婚

Noun

未婚 • (mihon) (hangeul 미혼)

1. Hanja form^? of 미혼 (“being unmarried”).