八風

Chinese

		eight	wind; news; style wind; news; style; custom; manner
trad. (八風)		八	風
simp. (八风)		八	风

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bāfēng

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚ ㄈㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baat³ fung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bāfēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚ ㄈㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bafong
    • Wade–Giles: pa¹-fêng¹
    • Yale: bā-fēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bafeng
    • Palladius: бафэн (bafɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵ fɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baat³ fung¹
    • Yale: baat fūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baat⁸ fung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bad³ fung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːt̚³ fʊŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

八風

1. (literary) winds of all eight directions

   Hyponyms: 明庶風／明庶风, 清明風／清明风, 景風／景风, 涼風／凉风 (liángfēng), 閶闔風／阊阖风, 不周風／不周风, 廣莫風／广莫风, 融風／融风

   • Shuowen Jiezi

     風，八風也。／风，八风也。  ―  Fēng, bāfēng yě.  ―  風／风 (fēng, “wind”): the eight winds.

2. (Buddhism) eight worldly agitations of the heart (clarification of this definition is needed)

   Hyponyms: 利 (lì), 衰, 毀／毁 (huǐ), 譽／誉 (yù), 稱／称, 譏／讥 (jī), 苦, 樂／乐

Derived terms

• 八風吹不倒／八风吹不倒
• 八風吹不動／八风吹不动

 

Further reading

• Ding, Fubao (丁福保) (1922), “八風” in 佛學大辭典 [A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms].