萌動

Chinese

		(archaic) people; sprout; (neologism) moe, cute	to move; to change; to use to move; to change; to use; to act
trad. (萌動)		萌	動
simp. (萌动)		萌	动

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): méngdòng

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˊ ㄉㄨㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mang⁴ dung⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: méngdòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˊ ㄉㄨㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: méngdòng
    • Wade–Giles: mêng²-tung⁴
    • Yale: méng-dùng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mengdonq
    • Palladius: мэндун (mɛndun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ³⁵ tʊŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mang⁴ dung⁶
    • Yale: màhng duhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mang⁴ dung⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: meng⁴ dung⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐŋ²¹ tʊŋ²²/

Verb

萌動

1. (literal, botany) to sprout; to germinate; to bud
2. (figurative) to start; to begin; to spring up

Synonyms

• (to sprout):

• 出息 (Hakka)
• 出芽 (chūyá)
• 出苗 (chūmiáo)
• 出青 (Hokkien)
• 必目 (Hakka)
• 必筍／必笋 (Hakka)
• 抽筍／抽笋 (Hakka)
• 抽芽 (chōuyá)
• 暴穎／暴颖 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 暴筍／暴笋 (Hakka)
• 暴芽 (Hokkien)
• 權輿／权舆 (quányú) (literary)
• 爆穎／爆颖 (pok-íⁿ) (Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 爆芽 (bau⁴ nga⁴) (Gan, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 生筍／生笋 (Hakka)
• 生芽 (Hakka)
• 發穎／发颖 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 發芽／发芽 (fāyá)
• 綻筍／绽笋 (Hakka)
• 萌 (literary, or in compounds)
• 萌發／萌发 (méngfā)
• 萌芽 (méngyá)
• 露苗 (lòumiáo)

 

• (to start): 萌發／萌发 (méngfā), (literary) 萌生 (méngshēng)