中元

Chinese

		middle; centre; within middle; centre; within; among; in; while (doing something); during; China; Chinese; hit (the mark)	primary; first; fundamental primary; first; fundamental; dollar; (dynasty)
simp. and trad. (中元)		中	元

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhōngyuán

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥ ㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zung¹ jyun⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tiong-goân
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): zhong¹ yenn²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhōngyuán
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥ ㄩㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhongyuán
    • Wade–Giles: chung¹-yüan²
    • Yale: jūng-ywán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jongyuan
    • Palladius: чжунъюань (čžunʺjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ ɥɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zung¹ jyun⁴
    • Yale: jūng yùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzung¹ jyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: zung¹ yun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ jyːn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiong-goân
    • Tâi-lô: tiong-guân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dionggoaan
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² ɡuan²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² ɡuan¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɔŋ³³ ɡuan²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ ɡuan²³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ ɡuan²⁴/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: zhong¹ yenn²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (old-style): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ³³ y̯ẽ¹³/
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (new-style): /t͡sən³³ y̯ẽ¹³/

Noun

中元

1. the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month; Ghost Day, one of the 三元 (sānyuán, “three Taoist festivals”)
2. (～節) Ghost Festival

Japanese

Kanji in this term
中	元
ちゅう Grade: 1	げん Grade: 2
on'yomi

Alternative forms

• (present):
  • (honorific) お中元(ちゅうげん) (o-chūgen)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ちゅうげん [chùúgéń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕɨːɡẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

中(ちゅう)元(げん) • (chūgen) ^{←ちゆうげん (tyuugen)?}

1. the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, a Taoist date of importance(one of the 三元(さんげん) (sangen, “three Taoist festivals”)), now conflated in Japan with the Buddhist 盂蘭(うら)盆(ぼん)会(え) (urabon'e); see Ghost Festival#Japan
2. a present given around this time of the year in gratitude

References

• “中元”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026