美濃

See also: 美浓

Chinese

		beautiful; beauty; America	concentrated; dense
trad. (美濃)		美	濃
simp. (美浓)		美	浓

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Měinóng

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˇ ㄋㄨㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁵ nung⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): Mî-nùng / Mì-nùng
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Bí-lông / Bi-long

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Měinóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˇ ㄋㄨㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Měinóng
    • Wade–Giles: Mei³-nung²
    • Yale: Měi-núng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Meeinong
    • Palladius: Мэйнун (Mɛjnun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ nʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mei⁵ nung⁴
    • Yale: méih nùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁵ nung⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: méi⁵ nung⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mei̯¹³ nʊŋ²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Mî-nùng / Mì-nùng
    • Hakka Romanization System: mi^ˊ nung^ˇ / mi^ˇ nung^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: mi¹ nung² / mi² nung²
    • Sinological IPA: /mi²⁴ nuŋ¹¹/, /mi¹¹ nuŋ¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bí-lông
    • Tâi-lô: Bí-lông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: byloong
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lɔŋ²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lɔŋ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bi-long
    • Tâi-lô: Bi-long
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bilofng
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /bi⁴⁴⁻³³ lɔŋ⁴⁴/

Etymology 1

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 美濃(みの) (Mino), from Hakka 彌濃／弥浓 (Mì-nùng).

Proper noun

美濃

1. (～區) Meinong District (Hakka district in Kaohsiung, Taiwan)

   • 我叫做羅文裕，美濃的客家人 [Sixian Hakka, trad.]
     我叫做罗文裕，美浓的客家人 [Sixian Hakka, simp.]

     From: 2015, 羅文裕 (Wing), 關於我和你

     Ngài hêm-cho Lò Vùn-yi, Mî-nùng e Hak-kâ-ngìn [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ]

     I'm called Wing, a Hakka from Meinong

Etymology 2

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 美濃(みの) (Mino).

Proper noun

美濃

1. (～市) Mino (a city in Gifu Prefecture, Japan)

Derived terms

• 美濃瓜／美浓瓜 (měinóngguā)
• 美濃紙／美浓纸

 

Japanese

Etymology

Kanji in this term
美	濃
み Grade: 3 (ateji)	の Grade: S (ateji)
kan'on	nanori

美濃 (Mino): the red marks the location of Mino Province in this 1868 map of Japan.

⟨mi₁no₁⟩ → /mʲinʷo/ → /mino/

From Old Japanese.

The name of a province in ancient Japan, this appears in the oldest records of the 600s, and again later in the Kojiki of 712 CE, as 三野国 (Mino no kuni, literally “three + farm/field + 's + province”), apparently because the region had three large farms. This shifted to 御野国 (Mino no kuni, literally “honorable + farm/field + 's + province”), by roughly 702 CE, then a few years later in roughly 708 CE the spelling was officially changed to 美濃国 (Mino no kuni, literally “beautiful + rich/concentrated + 's + province”), with this spelling then later becoming the only one.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) みの [míꜜnò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [mʲino̞]

Proper noun

美(み)濃(の) • (Mino) 

1. a placename, especially:
   1. (historical) Short for 美濃国 (Mino no kuni): Mino Province, an old province of Japan
   2. Short for 美濃市 (Mino-shi): Mino (a city in Gifu Prefecture, Japan)
2. Short for 美濃紙 (Mino-gami, “traditional Japanese paper made in the Mino area”).
3. Short for 美濃絹 (Mino-ginu, “traditional Japanese silk made in the Mino area”).