愛媛

See also: 爱媛

Chinese

		to love; affection; to be fond of to love; affection; to be fond of; to like	a beauty
trad. (愛媛)		愛	媛
simp. (爱媛)		爱	媛

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 愛(え)媛(ひめ) (Ehime).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Àiyuán

(Zhuyin): ㄞˋ ㄩㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): oi³ wun⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Ài-oān

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Àiyuán
  - Zhuyin: ㄞˋ ㄩㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Àiyuán
  - Wade–Giles: Ai⁴-yüan²
  - Yale: Ài-ywán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Ayyuan
  - Palladius: Айюань (Ajjuanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀaɪ̯⁵¹ ɥɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: oi³ wun⁴
  - Yale: oi wùhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: oi³ wun⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: oi³ wun⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔːi̯³³ wuːn²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ài-oān
  - Tâi-lô: Ài-uān
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ae'oan
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ai²¹⁻⁵³ uan²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ai⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ uan⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ai²¹⁻⁵³ uan²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ai¹¹⁻⁵³ uan³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ai²¹⁻⁴¹ uan³³/

Proper noun

愛媛

(～縣) Ehime (a prefecture of Japan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
愛	媛
え Grade: 4	ひめ Grade: 4
nanori	kun'yomi

Etymology

⟨epi₁me₁⟩ → /epʲimʲe/ → /eɸime/ → /ehime/

From Old Japanese 愛比賣 (epi₁me₁, literally “loveable girl”), an epithet of Iyo Province according to the Kojiki (712 CE).^[1]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) えひめ [éꜜhìmè] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]
IPA^(key): [e̞çime̞]

Proper noun

愛(え)媛(ひめ) • (Ehime)

short for 愛媛県 (Ehime-ken): Ehime Prefecture
a female given name

References

^ Herbert E. Plutschow (1990) Chaos and Cosmos: Ritual in Early and Medieval Japanese Literature (Volume 1 of Brill's Japanese Studies Library), BRILL, →ISBN, page 76
^ 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