母艦

See also: 母舰

Chinese

		female; mother	warship
trad. (母艦)		母	艦
simp. (母舰)		母	舰

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 母(ぼ)艦(かん) (bokan, “mothership”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mǔjiàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˇ ㄐㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁵ laam⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mǔjiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˇ ㄐㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mǔjiàn
    • Wade–Giles: mu³-chien⁴
    • Yale: mǔ-jyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muujiann
    • Palladius: муцзянь (muczjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁵ laam⁶
    • Yale: móuh laahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁵ laam⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁵ lam⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯¹³ laːm²²/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 母艦

1. mother ship

Synonyms

• 母船 (mǔchuán)

Derived terms

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
母	艦
ぼ Grade: 2	かん Grade: S
on'yomi

Etymology

Compound of 母 (bo, “mother”) +‎ 艦 (kan, “warship”), calque of English mother ship. First used during the Meiji period (1868–1912).

Noun

母(ぼ)艦(かん) • (bokan) 

1. a mother ship, a tender (watercraft)

   1894, 大本營海軍參謀部 (Dai Hon'ei Kaigun Sanbō-bu, “Imperial HQ, Navy Staff Section”), 聯合艦隊出征報告 (Rengō Kantai Shussei Hōkoku, “Report on Combined Fleet Campaigns”)‎^[1], page 183:

2. Short for 航空母艦 (kōkū bokan, “aircraft carrier”).

Descendants

• → Chinese: 母艦／母舰 (mǔjiàn)