扁桃
Chinese
flat; tablet; inscription flat; tablet; inscription; small boat |
peach | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (扁桃) | 扁 | 桃 | |
| simp. #(扁桃) | 扁 | 桃 | |
| alternative forms | 偏桃 匾桃 | ||
Etymology
A Central Asian import during the Medieval period. Perhaps a phono-semantic matching of Persian بادام (bâdâm, “almond”) (as per Cihai), semantically construed as the “flat peach”.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: biǎntáo
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˇ ㄊㄠˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: biǎntáo
- Wade–Giles: pien3-tʻao2
- Yale: byǎn-táu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: beantaur
- Palladius: бяньтао (bjanʹtao)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pi̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰɑʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: bin2 tou4
- Yale: bín tòuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: bin2 tou4
- Guangdong Romanization: bin2 tou4
- Sinological IPA (key): /piːn³⁵ tʰou̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
扁桃
- almond (the plant Prunus amygdalus or its fruit)
- flat peach
Synonyms
- (almond): 巴旦木 (bādànmù), 巴旦杏 (bādànxìng), 杏仁 (xìngrén), (Taiwan) 杏仁果 (xìngrénguǒ)
- (flat peach): 蟠桃 (pántáo)
Derived terms
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 扁 | 桃 |
| へん Hyōgai |
とう Grade: S |
| on'yomi | |
Etymology
/pentau/ → /fentau/ → /hentau/ → /hentɔː/ → /hentoː/
From Middle Chinese compound 扁桃 (penX daw, literally “flat, thin + peach”), from the way the almond fruit resembles a flat, thin peach.
The modern sense of tonsil came about by contraction from the full term 扁桃腺 (hentōsen, literally “almond gland”).
Pronunciation
Noun
扁桃 or 扁桃 • (hentō) ←へんたう (fentau)?
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN