新聞

See also: 新闻

Chinese

new; newly; meso- (chem.)
 
hear; news; celebrated; sniff at
trad. (新聞) 新 聞
simp. (新闻) 新 闻

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 新 (しん)聞 (ぶん) (shinbun, “news, newspaper”), which was in turn a semantic readaptation of Chinese 新聞／新闻 (“recent events”).

Pronunciation

Noun

新聞

  1. (countable, uncountable) news (reports of current events) (Classifier: 條／条; 個／个)
    上新聞 / 上新闻  ―  shàng xīnwén  ―  to make news
    國營新聞媒體 / 国营新闻媒体  ―  guóyíng xīnwén méitǐ  ―  state-run news media
    新聞標題 / 新闻标题  ―  xīnwén biāotí  ―  news headlines
  2. (archaic) recent events
  3. (archaic) new knowledge

Usage notes

新聞／新闻 refers news as in reports of current events; to express the sense of news as in new information in general, use 消息 (xiāoxi).

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
新 聞
しん
Grade: 2		 ぶん
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 新聞 (sin mjun)

Pronunciation

Noun

新聞 (hiragana しんぶん, rōmaji shinbun)

  1. newspaper

Compounds

Descendants

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term
新聞

Noun

新聞 • (sinmun, McCune-Reischauer: sinmun, Yale: sinmun) (hangeul 신문)

  1. Hanja form? of 신문 (“newspaper”).

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word
新聞

Noun

新聞

  1. Hán tự form of tân văn, “newspaper”
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