溫床

See also: 温床 and 溫牀

Chinese

		(luke)warm; to review	bed; couch; (a measure word)
trad. (溫床/溫牀/温牀/温床)		溫/温	床/牀
simp. (温床)		温	床

Etymology

“hotbed”

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 温床(おんしょう) (onshō), calque of English hot bed.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wēnchuáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣ ㄔㄨㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wan¹ cong⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): un-chhn̂g / un-chhông

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wēnchuáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣ ㄔㄨㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wunchuáng
    • Wade–Giles: wên¹-chʻuang²
    • Yale: wēn-chwáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uenchwang
    • Palladius: вэньчуан (vɛnʹčuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wan¹ cong⁴
    • Yale: wān chòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wan¹ tsong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wen¹ cong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐn⁵⁵ t͡sʰɔːŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: un-chhn̂g
    • Tâi-lô: un-tshn̂g
    • Phofsit Daibuun: unzhngg
    • IPA (Xiamen): /un⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰŋ̍²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /un³³ t͡sʰŋ̍²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /un⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰŋ̍¹³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /un⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰŋ̍²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /un⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰŋ̍²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: un-chhông
    • Tâi-lô: un-tshông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: unzhoong
    • IPA (Xiamen): /un⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /un⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰɔŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /un³³ t͡sʰɔŋ²⁴/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 溫床

1. (agriculture) hotbed
2. (figurative) hotbed; breeding ground (a place ideal for the growth of something, usually something undesirable)

Verb

溫床

1. (historical) to warm the bed for one's parents (as an act of filial piety)