風船

Chinese

 
wind; news; style
wind; news; style; custom; manner
a boat; vessel; ship
trad. (風船)
simp. (风船)

Pronunciation


Noun

風船

  1. (literary) boat or ship propelled by wind
  2. (Dungan) airplane

Synonyms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
ふう
Grade: 2
せん
Grade: 2
goon kan’on
風船 (fūsen): a bunch of balloons.

Etymology

Appears to be a coinage in Japanese from Middle Chinese-derived roots, as a compound of (, wind) + (sen, ship, boat, vessel).

First cited to a text from 1860.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) うせん [fùúséń] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝːsẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

(ふう)(せん) • (fūsen) 

  1. [from 1860] balloon
    Synonym: 気球 (kikyū)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Palauan: huseng

References

  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

風船 • (pungseon) (hangeul 풍선)

  1. Hanja form? of 풍선 (balloon (an inflatable buoyant object designed to transport people through the air)).
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