晚生

Chinese

		evening; night; late	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
simp. and trad. (晚生)		晚	生

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wǎnshēng

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˇ ㄕㄥ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): boán-seng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wǎnshēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˇ ㄕㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wǎnsheng
    • Wade–Giles: wan³-shêng¹
    • Yale: wǎn-shēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woansheng
    • Palladius: ваньшэн (vanʹšɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: boán-seng
    • Tâi-lô: buán-sing
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boafnsefng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /buan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ siɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /buan⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

Note: boán-seng - literary.

Pronoun

晚生

1. (literary, dated) junior (someone from a younger generation)
2. (literary, self-deprecatory, polite, dated or Hokkien) I; me (first-person singular pronoun used politely to a superior or inferior)

Synonyms

• 晚輩／晚辈