定冠詞

See also: 定冠词

Chinese

		to set; to fix; to determine to set; to fix; to determine; to decide; to stabilize; to order	article
trad. (定冠詞)		定	冠詞
simp. (定冠词)		定	冠词

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dìngguàncí

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄥˋ ㄍㄨㄢˋ ㄘˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ding⁶ gun³ ci⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dìngguàncí
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄥˋ ㄍㄨㄢˋ ㄘˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dìngguàncíh
  - Wade–Giles: ting⁴-kuan⁴-tzʻŭ²
  - Yale: dìng-gwàn-tsź
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dinqguanntsyr
  - Palladius: дингуаньцы (dinguanʹcy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ku̯än⁵¹ t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ding⁶ gun³ ci⁴
  - Yale: dihng gun chìh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ding⁶ gun³ tsi⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: ding⁶ gun³ qi⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɪŋ²² kuːn³³ t͡sʰiː²¹/

Noun

定冠詞

definite article

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (定冠詞):

→ Japanese: 定冠詞(ていかんし) (teikanshi)
→ Korean: 정관사(定冠詞) (jeonggwansa)

See also

不定冠詞／不定冠词 (bùdìng guàncí)

Japanese

Etymology

Kanji in this term
定	冠	詞
てい Grade: 3	かん Grade: S	し Grade: 6
on'yomi

Compound of 定 (tei, “definite”) +‎ 冠詞 (kanshi, “article, as in grammar”).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) てーかんし [tèékáꜜǹshì] (Nakadaka – [3])^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): [te̞ːkã̠ɰ̃ɕi]

Noun

定(てい)冠(かん)詞(し) • (teikanshi) ^{←ていくわんし (teikwansi)^?}

(grammar) definite article

Antonyms

不定冠詞(ふていかんし) (futeikanshi): indefinite article

References

^ 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

Further reading

2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term
定	冠	詞

Noun

定冠詞 • (jeonggwansa) (hangeul 정관사)

hanja form^? of 정관사 (“definite article”)