光棍節

See also: 光棍节

Chinese

FWOTD – 11 November 2019

		bare stick; singleton	festival; section; segment festival; section; segment; point; part; to economize; to save; temperate
trad. (光棍節)		光棍	節
simp. (光棍节)		光棍	节

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Etymology

From being a day for single people who are not in a relationship. From slang for a bachelor without familial branches being a bare stick, and the set of ones in the date of 11/11 being a set of sticks, a set of singles. Originating at the University of Nanjing in the 1990s as Bachelors' Day, and popularized as a shopping event day by Alibaba in the 2000s.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guānggùnjié

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄤ ㄍㄨㄣˋ ㄐㄧㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwong¹ gwan³ zit³
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹kuaon-kuen-ciq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guānggùnjié
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄤ ㄍㄨㄣˋ ㄐㄧㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guanggùnjié
    • Wade–Giles: kuang¹-kun⁴-chieh²
    • Yale: gwāng-gwùn-jyé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guangguennjye
    • Palladius: гуангуньцзе (guangunʹcze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ ku̯ən⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guānggùnrjié
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄤ ㄍㄨㄣˋㄦ ㄐㄧㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guanggùnrjié
    • Wade–Giles: kuang¹-kun⁴-ʼrh-chieh²
    • Yale: gwāng-gwùnr-jyé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guangguelljye
    • Palladius: гуангуньрцзе (guangunʹrcze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ ku̯əɻ⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwong¹ gwan³ zit³
    • Yale: gwōng gwan jit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwong¹ gwan³ dzit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: guong¹ guen³ jid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɔːŋ⁵⁵ kʷɐn³³ t͡siːt̚³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ¹kuaon-kuen-ciq
    • MiniDict: kuaon^平 kuen cih
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹kuaan-kun-jiq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kuɑ̃⁵⁵ kuən³³ t͡ɕiɪʔ²¹/

Proper noun

光棍節

1. Singles' Day, celebrated annually on the 11th of November

   • 就在記者以為今年光棍節與去年一樣，沒有多少人登記結婚的時候，前來排隊的新人開始逐漸增多。 [MSC, trad.]
     就在记者以为今年光棍节与去年一样，没有多少人登记结婚的时候，前来排队的新人开始逐渐增多。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2015 November 11, 张颖川, “光棍节”新人扎堆“脱光”, in 《法制晚报》

     Jiù zài jìzhě yǐwèi jīnnián guānggùnjié yǔ qùnián yīyàng, méiyǒu duōshào rén dēngjì jiéhūn de shíhòu, qiánlái páiduì de xīnrén kāishǐ zhújiàn zēngduō. [Pinyin]

     Right as the journalist thought that this year's Singles' Day is the same as last year's, that not many people would go get married at the registry, there were gradually more newlyweds-to-be coming to line up [at the registry].

Synonyms

• 雙十一／双十一 (Shuāngshíyī)

Descendants

• → English: Singles' Day (calque)