温泉
See also: 溫泉
Chinese
For pronunciation and definitions of 温泉 – see 溫泉 (“hot spring; spa; onsen; etc.”). (This term, 温泉, is the simplified and variant traditional form of 溫泉.) |
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Japanese
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温泉 (onsen): an onsen or hot spring in Nachikatsuura, Japan
Kanji in this term | |
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温 | 泉 |
おん Grade: 3 | せん Grade: 6 |
kan’on |
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溫泉 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology
/wonsen/ → /onsen/
From Middle Chinese 溫泉 (MC ʔuən d͡ziuᴇn, literally “warm + spring”). Compare modern Chinese 溫泉 (wēnquán).
Pronunciation
- On’yomi: Kan’on
- (Tokyo) おんせん [òńséń] (Heiban – [0])[1]
- IPA(key): [õ̞ɰ̃sẽ̞ɴ]
Noun
温泉 • (onsen) ←をんせん (wonsen)? (kyūjitai 溫泉)
- a hot spring
- 1997 August 12, Maekawa, Takeshi, “未知なる大地への巻 [To the Strange Land]”, in 新鉄拳チンミ [New Ironfist Chinmi], volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 26:
- なるほど 温泉ってのはいいですね——っ
- Naru hodo Onsen tte no wa ii desu ne——'
- Of course. It’d be great to go to a hot spring
- なるほど 温泉ってのはいいですね——っ
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- a spa, an onsen
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 温泉街 (onsengai): a hot spring resort, a hot spring town
- 温泉学 (onsengaku): balneology
- 温泉郷 (onsenkyō): a hot spring village
- 温泉旅館 (onsen ryokan): a hot spring inn, spa hotel
- 温泉療法 (onsen ryōhō): hot spring therapy
- 天然温泉 (tennen onsen)
Descendants
- → English: onsen
- → Russian: онсэ́н m (onsɛ́n)
See also
- 銭湯 (sentō): a bathhouse
References
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN