情勢

See also: 情势

Chinese

		feeling; emotion; passion feeling; emotion; passion; situation	power; force; tendency power; force; tendency; conditions; influence
trad. (情勢)		情	勢
simp. (情势)		情	势

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qíngshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥˊ ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cing⁴ sai³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chêng-sè / chêng-sì

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qíngshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥˊ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cíngshìh
    • Wade–Giles: chʻing²-shih⁴
    • Yale: chíng-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyngshyh
    • Palladius: цинши (cinši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 情事 情勢 / 情势

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cing⁴ sai³
    • Yale: chìhng sai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsing⁴ sai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: qing⁴ sei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɪŋ²¹ sɐi̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chêng-sè
    • Tâi-lô: tsîng-sè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zengsex
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siɪŋ²³⁻³³ se²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɪŋ²⁴⁻²² se⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siɪŋ²⁴⁻²² se²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /t͡siɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ se¹¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chêng-sì
    • Tâi-lô: tsîng-sì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zengsix
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siɪŋ¹³⁻²² si²¹/

Noun

情勢

1. situation; circumstance

Synonyms

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• 事態 / 事态 (shìtài) (especially negative)
• 光景 (guāngjǐng)
• 光陰 / 光阴 (guāngyīn) (Classical)
• 勢面 / 势面 (Hokkien)
• 境地 (jìngdì) (chiefly undesirable)
• 境況 / 境况 (jìngkuàng) (usually economic)
• 境遇 (jìngyù) (usually negative)
• 局勢 / 局势 (júshì)
• 局面 (júmiàn)
• 形勢 / 形势 (xíngshì)
• 情境 (qíngjìng)
• 情態 / 情态 (qíngtài)
• 情況 / 情况 (qíngkuàng)
• 情狀 / 情状 (qíngzhuàng) (literary)
• 情節 / 情节 (qíngjié) (of a crime or mistake)
• 景況 / 景况 (jǐngkuàng) (chiefly of an economy or individual)
• 景象 (jǐngxiàng) (literary)
• 板面 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 樣子 / 样子 (yàngzi)
• 模樣 / 模样
• 狀況 / 状况 (zhuàngkuàng)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
情	勢
じょう Grade: 5	せい Grade: 5
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
状勢

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d͡ʑo̞ːse̞ː]
• (Tokyo) じょーせー [jòóséé] (Heiban – [0])

Noun

情(じょう)勢(せい) • (jōsei) ^{←じやうせい (zyausei)?}

1. state of things, situation
   • 2025 August 11 (last accessed), 上川陽子 [Yōko Kamikawa], quotee, “第208回国会　衆議院　本会議　第32号　令和4年6月9日 [208th Diet, House of Representatives, Plenary Session No. 32, June 9, 2022]”, in 国会会議録検索システム [Diet Proceedings Search System]‎^[1], 国立国会図書館 [National Diet Library]:

     ウクライナ情勢の緊迫化により、世界経済に様々な影響が生じています。

     Ukuraina jōsei no kinpaku-ka ni yori, sekai keizai ni samazama na eikyō ga shōjite imasu.

     The escalating situation in Ukraine is having a variety of impacts on the global economy.

References

• “情勢”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja in this term
情	勢

Noun

情勢 • (jeongse) (hangeul 정세)

1. hanja form^? of 정세 (“situation; circumstances”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
情	勢

Noun

情勢

1. chữ Hán form of tình thế (“situation”)