訂婚

See also: 订婚

Chinese

		to agree; to conclude; to draw up to agree; to conclude; to draw up; to subscribe to (a newspaper, etc.); to order	to marry; marriage; wedding to marry; marriage; wedding; to take a wife
trad. (訂婚)		訂	婚
simp. (订婚)		订	婚
alternative forms		定婚

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dìnghūn

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄥˋ ㄏㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ding⁶ fan¹ / ding³ fan¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tēng-hun

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dìnghūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄥˋ ㄏㄨㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dìnghun
    • Wade–Giles: ting⁴-hun¹
    • Yale: dìng-hwūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dinqhuen
    • Palladius: динхунь (dinxunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiŋ⁵¹ xu̯ən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ding⁶ fan¹ / ding³ fan¹
    • Yale: dihng fān / ding fān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ding⁶ fan¹ / ding³ fan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ding⁶ fen¹ / ding³ fen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɪŋ²² fɐn⁵⁵/, /tɪŋ³³ fɐn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tēng-hun
    • Tâi-lô: tīng-hun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dexnghwn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiɪŋ²²⁻²¹ hun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɪŋ⁴¹⁻²² hun³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɪŋ²²⁻²¹ hun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɪŋ³³⁻¹¹ hun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɪŋ³³⁻²¹ hun⁴⁴/

Verb

訂婚

1. to get engaged; to be betrothed

Synonyms

• 定親／定亲 (dìngqīn)
• (Min Nan) 定著／定着

Derived terms

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