郵便局

See also: 邮便局

Chinese

postal service situation; office; (a measure word used for games) set or round office
trad. (郵便局) 郵便
simp. (邮便局) 邮便

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese (ゆう)便(びん)(きょく) (yūbinkyoku).

Pronunciation


Noun

郵便局

  1. (obsolete or Taiwanese Hokkien, Taiwanese Hakka, Northeastern Mandarin) post office

Synonyms

Japanese

郵便局 (yūbinkyoku): a post office.
Kanji in this term
便
ゆう
Grade: 6
びん
Grade: 4
きょく
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Etymology

郵便 (postal service) + (office)

Pronunciation

    • (Tokyo) うびんきょく [yùúbíꜜǹkyòkù] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
    • IPA(key): [jɯ̟ᵝːbʲĩŋʲkʲo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

    Noun

    (ゆう)便(びん)(きょく) • (yūbinkyoku) いうびんきよく (iubinkyoku)?

    1. post office; postal centre

    Derived terms

    • 特定郵便局(とくていゆうびんきょく) (tokuteiyu ubinkyoku): special post office
    • 郵便局長(ゆうびんきょくちょう) (yūbinkyokuchō): post master
    • 郵便局員(ゆうびんきょくいん) (yūbinkyokuin): postal clerk

    See also

    References

    1. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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