變壓器

See also: 变压器 and 変圧器

Chinese

		to change; to become different; to transform to change; to become different; to transform; to vary; rebellion	to crush; to press; to push down to crush; to press; to push down; to keep under (control); in the first place	device; tool; utensil
trad. (變壓器)		變	壓	器
simp. (变压器)		变	压	器

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 変(へん)圧(あつ)器(き) (hen'atsuki) (Liu et al., 1984; Huang, 2020), attested as early as 1913, in the second appendix of 《工業嘗試》 translated by Bai Pengfei.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biànyāqì

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ ㄧㄚ ㄑㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bin³ aat³ hei³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): piàn-ap-khì

  (Teochew, Peng'im): biang³ iab⁴ ki³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biànyāqì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ ㄧㄚ ㄑㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: biànyacì
    • Wade–Giles: pien⁴-ya¹-chʻi⁴
    • Yale: byàn-yā-chì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bianniachih
    • Palladius: бяньяци (bjanʹjaci)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵¹ jä⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bin³ aat³ hei³
    • Yale: bin aat hei
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin³ aat⁸ hei³
    • Guangdong Romanization: bin³ ad³ héi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn³³ aːt̚³ hei̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piàn-ap-khì
    • Tâi-lô: piàn-ap-khì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piern'apqix
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɛn²¹⁻⁴¹ ap̚³²⁻⁴ kʰi²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /piɛn¹¹⁻⁵³ ap̚³²⁻⁴ kʰi¹¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /piɛn²¹⁻⁵³ ap̚³²⁻⁴ kʰi²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: biang³ iab⁴ ki³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: piàng iap khì
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piaŋ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ iap̚²⁻⁴ kʰi²¹³/

Noun

變壓器

1. (electronics) transformer

   降壓變壓器／降压变压器  ―  jiàngyā biànyāqì  ―  step-down transformer

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 變壓器 (“transformer”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		變壓器
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	變壓器
Cantonese	Guangzhou	火牛
	Hong Kong	火牛
	Taishan	火牛
	Dongguan	火牛
Hakka	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	火牛
Southern Min	Xiamen	變壓器
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	火牛
	Jieyang	火牛
Wu	Shanghai	方棚

Derived terms

• 自耦變壓器／自耦变压器

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
變	壓	器
へん Hyōgai	あつ Hyōgai	き Grade: 4
on'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 變壓器 – see the following entry.

【変圧器へんあつき】 [noun] transformer (device that changes the characteristics of AC electricity)

(This term, 變壓器, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)