方言

Chinese

 
square; quadrilateral; place; region; direction; side; method; way; prescription; power; upright; just
 
to speak; to say; talk; word
simp. and trad.
(方言)		 方 言

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 方 言
Reading # 2/2 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 陽 (106) 元 (65)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 府良切 語軒切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pʉɐŋ/ /ŋɨɐn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pʷiɐŋ/ /ŋiɐn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /piuɑŋ/ /ŋiɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /puaŋ/ /ŋɨan/
Li
Rong		 /piuaŋ/ /ŋiɐn/
Wang
Li		 /pĭwaŋ/ /ŋĭɐn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /piwaŋ/ /ŋɨ̯ɐn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fāng yán
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 方 言
Reading # 1/3 3/4
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fāng yán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pjang › ‹ ngjon ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C-paŋ/ /*ŋa[n]/
English square speak; speech

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 方 言
Reading # 1/2 1/1
No. 3023 14271
Phonetic
component		 方 言
Rime
group		 陽 元
Rime
subdivision		 0 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 方 言
Old
Chinese		 /*paŋ/ /*ŋan/
Notes 甲金文象槳即榜初文，下初爲單筆，猶旂左初亦作單杆

Noun

方言

  1. (linguistics) dialect; topolect; regional variety (of a language, especially Chinese)
    天津方言  ―  Tiānjīn fāngyán  ―  Tianjin dialect
    廣州方言 / 广州方言  ―  Guǎngzhōu fāngyán  ―  Guangzhou Cantonese
  2. non-Standard Mandarin variety of Chinese (such as dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese, Min Nan, etc.)
    在家說方言，在學校說普通話。 [MSC, trad.]
    在家说方言，在学校说普通话。 [MSC, simp.]
    Zài jiā shuō fāngyán, zài xuéxiào shuō pǔtōnghuà. [Pinyin]
    (He) speaks the local dialect at home and Standard Mandarin at school.
  3. (religion) tongues
    方言的恩賜 / 方言的恩赐  ―  fāngyán de ēncì  ―  the gift of tongues
    說方言 / 说方言  ―  shuō fāngyán  ―  to speak in tongues

Derived terms

  • 地區方言／地区方言
  • 方言地圖／方言地图
  • 方言字 (fāngyánzì)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (方言):
  • Japanese: 方 (ほう)言 (げん) (hōgen)
  • Korean: 방언 (方言, bang-eon)
  • Vietnamese: phương ngôn (方言)

Others:

  • Dungan: фон-ян (fon-yan)

Proper noun

方言

  1. Fangyan (the first Chinese dictionary of dialectal terms, written by Han dynasty scholar Yang Xiong)

Verb

方言

  1. (literary) to open one's mouth to speak after a period of silence

Japanese

Kanji in this term
方 言
ほう
Grade: 2		 げん
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Noun

方言 (hiragana ほうげん, rōmaji hōgen)

  1. a dialect; a provincialism

See also

  • Category:Regional Japanese
  • 弁 (べん) (ben, “suffix for dialects”)

Korean

Hanja in this term
方言

Noun

方言 • (bang-eon) (hangeul 방언)

  1. Hanja form? of 방언 (“dialect, patois”).
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