未婚

Chinese

		not yet; 8th earthly branch; 1–3 p.m.	to marry; marriage; wedding to marry; marriage; wedding; to take a wife
trad. (未婚)		未	婚
simp. ^#(未婚)		未	婚

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wèihūn

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˋ ㄏㄨㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁶ fan¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): bī-hun

(Teochew, Peng'im): bhuê⁷ hung¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wèihūn
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˋ ㄏㄨㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wèihun
  - Wade–Giles: wei⁴-hun¹
  - Yale: wèi-hwūn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: weyhuen
  - Palladius: вэйхунь (vɛjxunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯⁵¹ xu̯ən⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: mei⁶ fan¹
  - Yale: meih fān
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁶ fan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: méi⁶ fen¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mei̯²² fɐn⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bī-hun
  - Tâi-lô: bī-hun
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bixhwn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bi²²⁻²¹ hun⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bi⁴¹⁻²² hun³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bi²²⁻²¹ hun⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /bi³³⁻¹¹ hun⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bi³³⁻²¹ hun⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bhuê⁷ hung¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: buē hung
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /bue¹¹ huŋ³³/

Adjective

未婚

(attributive) unmarried

Antonyms

已婚 (yǐhūn)

Derived terms

未婚夫 (wèihūnfū)
未婚妻 (wèihūnqī)

See also

單身／单身 (dānshēn)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
未	婚
み Grade: 4	こん Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) みこん [mìkóń] (Heiban – [0])
IPA^(key): [mʲikõ̞ɴ]

Noun

未(み)婚(こん) • (mikon)

being unmarried and never having been married before

Usage notes

Used attributively as a noun, taking the possessive particle の (no).

Antonyms

既(き)婚(こん) (kikon, “married”)

Korean

Hanja in this term
未	婚

Noun

未婚 • (mihon) (hangeul 미혼)

hanja form^? of 미혼 (“being unmarried”)