波音

Chinese

		wave; (Cantonese) ball	sound; noise; news
simp. and trad. (波音)		波	音
anagram		音波

Etymology

Borrowed from English Boeing.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Bōyīn

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄛㄧㄣ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): bo¹ jam¹

(Taishan, Wiktionary): bo¹ yim¹ / bo¹ yim^1*

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Bōyīn
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄛㄧㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Boyin
  - Wade–Giles: Po¹-yin¹
  - Yale: Bwō-yīn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Boin
  - Palladius: Боинь (Boinʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ⁵⁵ in⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bo¹ jam¹
  - Yale: bō yām
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bo¹ jam¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: bo¹ yem¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔː⁵⁵ jɐm⁵⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: bo¹ yim¹ / bo¹ yim^1*
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pᵘɔ³³ jim³³/, /pᵘɔ³³ jim³³⁻³³⁵/

Proper noun

波音

a transliteration of the English surname Boeing
(aviation) An American aerospace company.

References

Proper Names And Translation Service, Xinhua News Agency, editor (1993), “Boeing 波音 [英、德]”, in 世界人名翻译大辞典 [Names of The Worlds Peoples: A comprehensive dictionary of names in Roman-Chinese] (in Chinese), Beijing: China Translation & Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 326.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
波	音
なみ Grade: 3	おと Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Noun

波音(なみおと) • (namioto)

sound of sea wave