物理

Chinese

		thing; object; matter	to manage; to heed; to put in order to manage; to heed; to put in order; reason; logic; science; inner principle or structure
simp. and trad. (物理)		物	理

Etymology

The sense "physics" is wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 物理(ぶつり) (butsuri).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wùlǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˋ ㄌㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mat⁶ lei⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): vu̍t-lî
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bu̍t-lí

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wùlǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˋ ㄌㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wùlǐ
    • Wade–Giles: wu⁴-li³
    • Yale: wù-lǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuhlii
    • Palladius: ули (uli)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵¹ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mat⁶ lei⁵
    • Yale: maht léih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mat⁹ lei⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: med⁶ léi⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐt̚² lei̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vu̍t-lî
    • Hakka Romanization System: vud li^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: vud⁶ li¹
    • Sinological IPA: /vut̚⁵ li²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bu̍t-lí
    • Tâi-lô: bu̍t-lí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: budlie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /but̚⁴⁻³² li⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /but̚²⁴⁻² li⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /but̚¹²¹⁻²¹ li⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /but̚⁴⁻³² li⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /but̚⁴⁻³² li⁴¹/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 物理

1. physics

   等離子體物理／等离子体物理  ―  děnglízǐtǐ wùlǐ  ―  plasma physics

2. (literary) the innate nature of things

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) 物理

1. physical

Derived terms

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
物	理
ぶつ Grade: 3	り Grade: 2
on'yomi

Noun

物(ぶつ)理(り) • (butsuri) 

1. physics (physics itself, not the study of it)