東西
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See also: 东西
Chinese
[edit]east | west | ||
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trad. (東西) | 東 | 西 | |
simp. (东西) | 东 | 西 |
Etymology
[edit]- "thing; stuff"
Unknown. Many theories exist. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “needs a summary”)
Pronunciation 1
[edit]- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): dung1 sai1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tûng-sî
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tang-sai
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄥ ㄒㄧ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dongsi
- Wade–Giles: tung1-hsi1
- Yale: dūng-syī
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dongshi
- Palladius: дунси (dunsi)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʊŋ⁵⁵ ɕi⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: dung1 sai1
- Yale: dūng sāi
- Cantonese Pinyin: dung1 sai1
- Guangdong Romanization: dung1 sei1
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʊŋ⁵⁵ sɐi̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tûng-sî
- Hakka Romanization System: dung´ xi´
- Hagfa Pinyim: dung1 xi1
- Sinological IPA: /tuŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ si²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Southern Min
- Middle Chinese: tuwng sej
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*tˤoŋ s-nˤər/
- (Zhengzhang): /*toːŋ sɯːl/
Noun
[edit]東西
Adverb
[edit]東西
- from east to west
- 阿富汗,即愛烏罕。其國北界布哈爾,南界俾路支,東界印度,西界波斯,東西二千餘里。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
- From: 1929, Zhao Erxun (lead editor), Draft History of Qing
- Āfùhàn, jí Àiwūhǎn. Qí guó běi jiè Bùhā'ěr, nán jiè Bǐlùzhī, dōng jiè Yìndù, xī jiè Bōsī, dōngxī èrqiān yú lǐ. [Pinyin]
- Afghanistan (Afuhan), is [also transcribed as] Aiwuhan. This country borders Bukhara to its north, Balochistan to its south, India to its east, and Persia to its west. It spans more than two thousand li from east to west.
阿富汗,即爱乌罕。其国北界布哈尔,南界俾路支,东界印度,西界波斯,东西二千余里。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]- 南北 (nánběi)
Pronunciation 2
[edit]- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): dung1 sai1
- Gan (Wiktionary): dung1 xi
- Hakka
- Jin (Wiktionary): dung1 xi3
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tong-si
- Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): dong1 si
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄥ ˙ㄒㄧ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dongsi̊
- Wade–Giles: tung1-hsi5
- Yale: dūng-syi
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dong.shi
- Palladius: дунси (dunsi)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʊŋ⁵⁵ ɕi²/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄥ ㄒㄧ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dongsi
- Wade–Giles: tung1-hsi1
- Yale: dūng-syī
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dongshi
- Palladius: дунси (dunsi)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʊŋ⁵⁵ ɕi⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Note:
- dōngxi - standard in China;
- dōngxī - common in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and South China.
- (Dungan)
- Cyrillic and Wiktionary: дунщи (dunxi, I-I)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tuŋ²⁴ ɕi²⁴/
- (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: dung1 sai1
- Yale: dūng sāi
- Cantonese Pinyin: dung1 sai1
- Guangdong Romanization: dung1 sei1
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʊŋ⁵⁵ sɐi̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Gan
- (Nanchang)
- Wiktionary: dung1 xi
- Sinological IPA (key): /tuŋ⁴² ɕi²/
- (Nanchang)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tûng-sî
- Hakka Romanization System: dung´ xi´
- Hagfa Pinyim: dung1 xi1
- Sinological IPA: /tuŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ si²⁴/
- (Meixian)
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: dung1 xi3
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /tũŋ¹¹ ɕi⁴⁵/
- (Taiyuan)+
- Southern Min
- Xiang
Noun
[edit]東西
- (chiefly Mandarin, Gan, Hakka, Jin, Xiang) thing; stuff; something (Classifier: 個/个; 件; 樣/样)
- Referring to a person or animal with emotion.
Usage notes
[edit]- In Mandarin, whilst 東西/东西 can mean a thing in either a physical or abstract sense, 事情 (shìqing) only means a thing in an abstract sense.
Synonyms
[edit]- 物品 (wùpǐn)
Dialectal synonyms of 東西 (“thing; object”) [map]
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → White Hmong: toobxib
Japanese
[edit]Kanji in this term | |
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東 | 西 |
とう Grade: 2 |
さい > ざい Grade: 2 |
on'yomi |
Etymology
[edit]From Middle Chinese 東西 (MC tuwng sej). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) The sai of 西 changes to zai due to rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- east and west
- (by extension) all over, here and there
- Orient and Occident
- (slang) a name of a good or money, originally a Chinese slang term
Derived terms
[edit]- 古今東西 (kokon tōzai, “all times and places”)
- 東西南北 (tōzai nanboku, “east, west, south and north”)
- 東西冷戦 (Tōzai Reisen, “Cold War”)
Related terms
[edit]Interjection
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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