半陰陽

Chinese

		half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half	moonlight and sunlight; yin and yang
trad. (半陰陽)		半	陰陽
simp. (半阴阳)		半	阴阳

Pronunciation

Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): bua⁴ ing¹ yorng² / buann⁴ ing¹ yoeng²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pòaⁿ-iam-iûⁿ / pòaⁿ-iam-iôⁿ

Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: bua⁴ ing¹ yorng² [Phonetic: bua¹ ing⁵ ngyorng²]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: bua̍ⁿ-ing-ió̤ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pua⁴²⁻⁵⁵ iŋ⁵³³⁻¹¹ ^(Ø-)ŋyɒŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: buann⁴ ing¹ yoeng² [Phonetic: buann¹ ing⁵ ngyoeng²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pũã⁴²⁻⁵⁵ iŋ⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ ^(Ø-)ŋyøŋ²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Hsinchu, Kinmen, Lukang, Magong, Sanxia, Taichung, Philippines)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pòaⁿ-iam-iûⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: puànn-iam-iûnn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pvoariam'viuu
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Philippines): /puã⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ iam³³ iũ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kinmen): /puã¹²⁻⁴⁴ iam⁴⁴⁻²² iũ²⁴/
  - IPA (Lukang): /puã³¹⁻⁵³ iam³³ iũ²⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /puã²¹⁻⁵³ iam⁴⁴⁻²² iũ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pòaⁿ-iam-iôⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: puànn-iam-iônn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pvoariam'viooi
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /puã²¹⁻⁵³ iam⁴⁴⁻²² iɔ̃¹³/

Noun

半陰陽

(Hokkien and Puxian Min) hermaphrodite; intersex person
(Philippine Hokkien) homosexual

Synonyms

二尾子 (èryǐzi) (regional, derogatory)
二性子 (èrxìngzi)
兩性人 / 两性人 (liǎngxìngrén)
半公嫲 (Hakka)
半陰 / 半阴 (Min Nan)
半陰陽仔 / 半阴阳仔 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
間性人 / 间性人 (jiānxìngrén)
阿倌 (Min Nan)
陰陽人 / 阴阳人 (yīnyángrén)
雙性人 / 双性人 (shuāngxìngrén)

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “半阴阳”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 62.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
半	陰	陽
はん Grade: 2	いん Grade: S	よう Grade: 3
kan'on

Etymology

半 (“half-; semi-; demi-”) +‎ 陰陽 (“yin-yang; female and male”)

Noun

半(はん)陰(いん)陽(よう) • (han'in'yō)

hermaphroditism
半陰陽者(はんいんようしゃ)
han'in'yōsha
a hermaphrodite