烙印

Chinese

		bake; flat iron; large cake	stamp; seal; mark stamp; seal; mark; print; India (abbrev.)
trad. (烙印)		烙	印
simp. #(烙印)		烙	印

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): làoyìn

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄠˋ ㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lok³ jan³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lo̍k-ìn / lō-ìn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: làoyìn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˋ ㄧㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: làoyìn
    • Wade–Giles: lao⁴-yin⁴
    • Yale: làu-yìn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lawyinn
    • Palladius: лаоинь (laoinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ in⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lok³ jan³
    • Yale: lok yan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lok⁸ jan³
    • Guangdong Romanization: log³ yen³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔːk̚³ jɐn³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lo̍k-ìn
    • Tâi-lô: lo̍k-ìn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: log'ixn
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ in²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lɔk̚⁴⁻³² in²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔk̚²⁴⁻² in⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lō-ìn
    • Tâi-lô: lō-ìn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: loixixn
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /lo²²⁻²¹ in²¹/

Noun

烙印

1. brand (identifying mark burnt on livestock or implements)
2. (figurative) indelible mark; stigma; lasting mark

   • 在階級社會中，每一個人都在一定的階級地位中生活，各種思想無不打上階級的烙印。 [MSC, trad.]
     在阶级社会中，每一个人都在一定的阶级地位中生活，各种思想无不打上阶级的烙印。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1937, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《實踐論》 (On Practice), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Zài jiējí shèhuì zhōng, měi yīge rén dōu zài yīdìng de jiējí dìwèi zhōng shēnghuó, gèzhǒng sīxiǎng wúbù dǎshàng jiējí de làoyìn. [Pinyin]

     In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of a class.

Synonyms

• (brand): 火印 (huǒyìn)
• (indelible):

• 人影 (rényǐng) (of a person)
• 印痕 (yìnhén)
• 形跡／形迹 (xíngjì)
• 斑痕 (bānhén)
• 殘跡／残迹 (cánjì)
• 痕跡／痕迹 (hénjì)
• 蹤影／踪影 (zōngyǐng)
• 蹤跡／踪迹 (zōngjì)
• 身影 (shēnyǐng) (figurative)
• 點子／点子 (diǎnzi)

 

Verb

烙印

1. to put a lasting mark; to imprint

   • 琉球群島曾經是美國和日本激戰地區，當地居民死亡慘重，戰爭創傷深深烙印在琉球人民心中。 [MSC, trad.]
     琉球群岛曾经是美国和日本激战地区，当地居民死亡惨重，战争创伤深深烙印在琉球人民心中。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1953 January 8, 琉球群島人民反對美國佔領的鬥爭, in 《人民日報》 [People's Daily], page 4

     Liúqiú Qúndǎo céngjīng shì Měiguó hé Rìběn jīzhàn dìqū, dāngdì jūmín sǐwáng cǎnzhòng, zhànzhēng chuàngshāng shēnshēn làoyìn zài Liúqiú rénmín xīnzhōng. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 倒數著夢　回憶都烙印心裡頭 [MSC, trad.]
     倒数着梦　回忆都烙印心里头 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2022, 周興哲 [Eric Chou], 想知道你在想什麼 [What's on Your Mind]

     dàoshǔ zhe mèng, huíyì dōu làoyìn xīn lǐtou [Pinyin]

     Counting down the dreams, with memories imprinted in my heart