動脈

See also: 动脉

Chinese

		to move; to change; to use to move; to change; to use; to act	mountain range; pulse
trad. (動脈)		動	脈
simp. (动脉)		动	脉
anagram		脈動／脉动

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 動脈(どうみゃく) (dōmyaku, “artery”), which was in turn a semantic readaptation of Chinese 動脈／动脉 (dòngmài, “one of the twenty-eight pulses in TCM”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dòngmài

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄥˋ ㄇㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dung⁶ mak⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tǒng-be̍h / tōng-me̍h / tōng-me̍eh

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dòngmài
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄥˋ ㄇㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dòngmài
    • Wade–Giles: tung⁴-mai⁴
    • Yale: dùng-mài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: donqmay
    • Palladius: дунмай (dunmaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ maɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dung⁶ mak⁶
    • Yale: duhng mahk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dung⁶ mak⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dung⁶ meg⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ²² mɐk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tǒng-be̍h
    • Tâi-lô: tǒng-be̍h
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔŋ²² beʔ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōng-me̍h
    • Tâi-lô: tōng-me̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doxngmeh
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tɔŋ²²⁻²¹ mẽʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔŋ³³⁻²¹ mẽʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tɔŋ³³⁻¹¹ mẽʔ⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōng-me̍eh
    • Tâi-lô: tōng-me̍eh
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔŋ²²⁻²¹ mɛ̃ʔ¹²¹/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 動脈

1. (anatomy) artery

Antonyms

• 靜脈／静脉 (jìngmài)

Derived terms

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
動	脈
どう Grade: 3	みゃく Grade: 5
on'yomi

Noun

動(どう)脈(みゃく) • (dōmyaku) 

1. (anatomy) an artery

Descendants

• Chinese: 動脈／动脉 (dòngmài)
• Korean: 동맥 (dongmaek)
• Vietnamese: động mạch

See also

• 静(じょう)脈(みゃく) (jōmyaku, “vein”)
• 毛(もう)細(さい)血(けっ)管(かん) (mōsai kekkan)

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Korean

Hanja in this term
動	脈

Noun

動脈 • (dongmaek or McCune-Reischauer: tongmaek or Yale: tōngmayk) (hangeul 동맥)

1. hanja form^? of 동맥 (“artery”)

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Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
動	脈

Noun

動脈

1. chữ Hán form of động mạch (“artery”).