哺乳

Chinese

		feed	breast; milk
simp. and trad. (哺乳)		哺	乳
anagram		乳哺

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǔrǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˇ ㄖㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bou⁶ jyu⁵
• Eastern Min (BUC): buô-ṳ̄
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pō͘-lú / pó͘-jú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bǔrǔ [Phonetic: búrǔ]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˇ ㄖㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bǔrǔ
    • Wade–Giles: pu³-ju³
    • Yale: bǔ-rǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buuruu
    • Palladius: бужу (bužu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʐu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bou⁶ jyu⁵
    • Yale: bouh yúh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bou⁶ jy⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: bou⁶ yu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pou̯²² jyː¹³/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 哺乳 暴雨

• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: buô-ṳ̄
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puo²⁴²⁻⁵³ y³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pō͘-lú
    • Tâi-lô: pōo-lú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: poxluo
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔ⁴¹⁻²² lu⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pɔ²²⁻²¹ lu⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pó͘-jú
    • Tâi-lô: póo-jú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pofjuo
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zu⁵³/

Verb

哺乳

1. to breastfeed

Synonyms

(deprecated template usage)

• 乳 (rǔ) (literary, or in compounds)
• 抱奶 (bàonǎi)
• 授乳 (shòurǔ)
• 母乳餵養／母乳喂养 (mǔrǔ wèiyǎng)
• 飼奶／饲奶 (Hokkien, Teochew)
• 餵奶／喂奶 (wèinǎi)

 

Derived terms

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
哺	乳
ほ Grade: S	にゅう Grade: 6
on'yomi

Noun

哺(ほ)乳(にゅう) • (honyū) 

1. lactation, nursing

Verb

哺(ほ)乳(にゅう)する • (honyū suru) suru (stem 哺(ほ)乳(にゅう)し (honyū shi), past 哺(ほ)乳(にゅう)した (honyū shita))

1. suckle, nurse

Conjugation

Conjugation of "哺乳する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	哺乳し	ほんゆうし	hon'yū shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	哺乳し	ほんゆうし	hon'yū shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	哺乳する	ほんゆうする	hon'yū suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	哺乳する	ほんゆうする	hon'yū suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	哺乳すれ	ほんゆうすれ	hon'yū sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	哺乳せよ¹ 哺乳しろ²	ほんゆうせよ¹ ほんゆうしろ²	hon'yū seyo¹ hon'yū shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	哺乳される	ほんゆうされる	hon'yū sareru
Causative	哺乳させる 哺乳さす	ほんゆうさせる ほんゆうさす	hon'yū saseru hon'yū sasu
Potential	哺乳できる	ほんゆうできる	hon'yū dekiru
Volitional	哺乳しよう	ほんゆうしよう	hon'yū shiyō
Negative	哺乳しない	ほんゆうしない	hon'yū shinai
Negative continuative	哺乳せず	ほんゆうせず	hon'yū sezu
Formal	哺乳します	ほんゆうします	hon'yū shimasu
Perfective	哺乳した	ほんゆうした	hon'yū shita
Conjunctive	哺乳して	ほんゆうして	hon'yū shite
Hypothetical conditional	哺乳すれば	ほんゆうすれば	hon'yū sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative