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
Min Nan (POJ): bu̍t-lí

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: wùlǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄨˋ ㄌㄧˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuhlii
  - IPA ^(key): /u⁵¹ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: mat⁶ lei⁵
  - Yale: maht léih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mat⁹ lei⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: med⁶ léi⁵
  - IPA ^(key): /mɐt̚² lei̯¹³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vu̍t-lî
  - Hakka Romanization System: vud li´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: vud⁶ li¹
  - IPA: /vut̚⁵ li²⁴/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bu̍t-lí
  - Tâi-lô: bu̍t-lí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: budlie
  - IPA (Xiamen): /but̚⁴⁻³² li⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /but̚²⁴⁻²² li⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /but̚¹²¹⁻²¹ li⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /but̚⁴⁻³² li⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /but̚⁴⁻³² li⁴¹/

Noun

物理

physics

等離子體物理 / 等离子体物理 ― děnglízǐtǐ wùlǐ ― plasma physics
(literary) innate nature of things

Derived terms

物理化學／物理化学 (wùlǐ huàxué)
物理學／物理学 (wùlǐxué)
物理性質／物理性质
物理治療／物理治疗 (wùlǐ zhìliáo)

物理療法／物理疗法 (wùlǐ liáofǎ)
物理診斷／物理诊断
物理變化／物理变化 (wùlǐ biànhuà)
物理量 (wùlǐliàng)

Japanese

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

Noun

物理 (hiragana ぶつり, rōmaji butsuri)

physics (physics itself, not the study of it)

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