晚生
Chinese
evening; night; late | to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw | ||
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simp. and trad. (晚生) |
晚 | 生 |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: wǎnshēng
- Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˇ ㄕㄥ
- Tongyong Pinyin: wǎnsheng
- Wade–Giles: wan3-shêng1
- Yale: wǎn-shēng
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woansheng
- Palladius: ваньшэн (vanʹšɛn)
- Sinological IPA (key): /wän²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: boán-seng
- Tâi-lô: buán-sing
- Phofsit Daibuun: boafnsefng
- IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /buan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ siɪŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /buan⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ siɪŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
Note: boán-seng - literary.
Pronoun
晚生
- (literary, dated) junior (someone from a younger generation)
- (literary, self-deprecatory, polite, dated or Hokkien) I; me (first-person singular pronoun used politely to a superior or inferior)