定冠詞

定冠詞

See also: 定冠词

Chinese

		to set; to fix; to determine to set; to fix; to determine; to decide; to stabilise; to order	article
trad. (定冠詞)		定	冠詞
simp. (定冠词)		定	冠词

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dìngguàncí

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄥˋ ㄍㄨㄢˋ ㄘˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ding⁶ gun³ ci⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: dìngguàncí
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄥˋ ㄍㄨㄢˋ ㄘˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dinqguanntsy
    • IPA ^(key): /tiŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ku̯än⁵¹ t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ding⁶ gun³ ci⁴
    • Yale: dihng gun chìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ding⁶ gun³ tsi⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ding⁶ gun³ qi⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /tɪŋ²² kuːn³³ t͡sʰiː²¹/

Noun

定冠詞

1. definite article

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (定冠詞):

• → Japanese: 定 (てい)冠 (かん)詞 (し) (teikanshi)
• → Korean: 정관사 (定冠詞, jeonggwansa)

See also

• 不定冠詞／不定冠词 (bùdìngguàncí)

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Japanese

Etymology

Kanji in this term
定	冠	詞
てい Grade: 3	かん Grade: S	し Grade: 6
on’yomi

Compound of 定 (tei, “definite”) +‎ 冠詞 (kanshi, “article, as in grammar”).

Pronunciation

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) てーか​んし [tèékáꜜǹshì] (Nakadaka – [3])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [te̞ːkã̠ɰ̃ɕi]

Noun

定冠詞 (hiragana ていかんし, rōmaji teikanshi, historical hiragana ていくわんし)

1. (grammar) definite article

Antonyms

• 不 (ふ)定 (てい)冠 (かん)詞 (し) (futeikanshi): indefinite article

Further reading

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.