波音

Chinese

		wave; (Cantonese) ball	sound; noise; news
simp. and trad. (波音)		波	音
anagram		音波

Etymology

Borrowed from English Boeing.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Bōyīn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄛ ㄧㄣ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): bo¹ jam¹

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): bo¹ yim¹ / bo¹ yim^1*

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Bōyīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄛ ㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Boyin
    • Wade–Giles: Po¹-yin¹
    • Yale: Bwō-yīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Boin
    • Palladius: Боинь (Boinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu̯ɔ⁵⁵ in⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bo¹ jam¹
    • Yale: bō yām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bo¹ jam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bo¹ yem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔː⁵⁵ jɐm⁵⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: bo¹ yim¹ / bo¹ yim^1*
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pᵘɔ³³ jim³³/, /pᵘɔ³³ jim³³⁻³³⁵/

Proper noun

波音

1. A transliteration of the English surname Boeing
2. (aviation) An American aerospace company.

References

• Proper Names And Translation Service, Xinhua News Agency, editor (1993), “Boeing 波音 [英、德]”, in 世界人名翻译大辞典 [Names of The Worlds Peoples: A comprehensive dictionary of names in Roman-Chinese] (in Chinese), Beijing: China Translation & Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 326.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
波	音
なみ Grade: 3	おと Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Noun

波音(なみおと) • (namioto) 

1. sound of sea wave