看護婦

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 看護婦(かんごふ) (kangofu).

看護婦

1. (chiefly Taiwanese Hokkien) nurse

• 看護學／看护学 (kānhùxué)

Compound of 看護 (“nursing”) +‎ 婦 (“woman; female”).

• (Tokyo) かんごふ [kàńgóꜜfù] (Nakadaka – [3])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [kã̠ŋɡo̞ɸɯ̟]

看(かん)護(ご)婦(ふ) • (kangofu) 

1. (medicine) female nurse

This term was used in 保(ほ)健(けん)婦(ふ)助(じょ)産(さん)婦(ふ)看(かん)護(ご)婦(ふ)法(ほう) (Hoken-fu Josan-fu Kango-fu Hō, lit. Act on [Female] Public Health Nurses, [Female] Midwives and [Female] Nurses) enacted in 1948. This act provided that 看(かん)護(ご)婦(ふ) (kangofu) were nurses who were female. Men also can do women equivalent work and they were called 看(かん)護(ご)人(にん) (kangonin, “male nurse, lit. nurse person”) in the act. 看(かん)護(ご)人(にん) (kangonin) were applied on provisions relating to 看(かん)護(ご)婦(ふ) (kangofu).

In 1968, 看(かん)護(ご)人(にん) (kangonin) was renamed to 看(かん)護(ご)士(し) (kangoshi). 看(かん)護(ご)婦(ふ) (kangofu) and 看(かん)護(ご)士(し) (kangoshi) were combined into 看(かん)護(ご)師(し) (kangoshi) with propose of genderlessness in 2002.

• 看(かん)護(ご)師(し) (kangoshi)
• 看(かん)護(ご)士(し) (kangoshi)

• → Amis: kangkofo, kangkofu
• → Bunun: kangkuhu
• → Hokkien: 看護婦 / 看护妇 (khàn-hō͘-hū / khàn-lō͘-hū)
• → Mandarin: 看護婦 / 看护妇 (kānhùfù)
• → Paiwan: kanguhu
• → Taroko: kanggohu