新聞

See also: 新闻

Chinese

		new; newly; meso- (chem.)	hear; news; celebrated hear; news; celebrated; sniff at
trad. (新聞)		新	聞
simp. (新闻)		新	闻

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 新聞(しんぶん) (shinbun, “news, newspaper”), which was in turn a semantic readaptation of Chinese 新聞／新闻 (xīnwén, “recent events”).

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 新聞

1. (countable, uncountable) news (reports of current events) (Classifier: 條／条 m; 宗 c; 單／单 c)

   上新聞／上新闻  ―  shàng xīnwén  ―  to make news

   國營新聞媒體／国营新闻媒体  ―  guóyíng xīnwén méitǐ  ―  state-run news media

   新聞標題／新闻标题  ―  xīnwén biāotí  ―  news headlines

2. (archaic) recent events
3. (archaic) new knowledge

Usage notes

新聞／新闻 (xīnwén) refers news as in reports of current events; to express the sense of news as in new information in general, use 消息 (xiāoxi).

Descendants

• → Zhuang: sinhvwnz

See also

• 星聞／星闻 (xīngwén)

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
新	聞
しん Grade: 2	ぶん Grade: 2
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 新聞 (MC sin mjun).

The newspaper meaning is a simplified from 新(しん)聞(ぶん)紙(し) (shinbunshi). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

新(しん)聞(ぶん) • (shinbun) 

1. newspaper

Derived terms

• 新(しん)聞(ぶん)紙(し) (shinbunshi): newsprint

Descendants

• Chinese: 新聞／新闻 (xīnwén)
• Korean: 신문 (sinmun)
• Vietnamese: tân văn

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

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Korean

Hanja in this term
新	聞

Noun

新聞 • (sinmun or McCune-Reischauer: sinmun or Yale: sinmun) (hangeul 신문)

1. hanja form^? of 신문 (“newspaper”)

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Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
新	聞

Noun

新聞

1. chữ Hán form of tân văn (“newspaper”).