買春

Chinese

buy
 
spring (time); gay; joyful
spring (time); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life
trad. (買春)
simp. (买春)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (4) (24)
Final () (31) (47)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division () II III
Fanqie
Baxter meaX tsyhwin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mˠɛX/ /t͡ɕʰiuɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/mᵚæX/ /t͡ɕʰʷin/
Shao
Rongfen
/mæiX/ /t͡ɕʰjuen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/maɨjX/ /cʰwin/
Li
Rong
/mɛX/ /t͡ɕʰiuĕn/
Wang
Li
/maiX/ /t͡ɕʰĭuĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/maiX/ /t͡ɕʰi̯uĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mǎi chūn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
maai5 ceon1

Verb

買春

  1. to buy wine
  2. to get scenes of springtime
  3. to visit a prostitute

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
ばい
Grade: 2
しゅん
Grade: 2
kan’on on’yomi

Probably ultimately from Middle Chinese 買春 (MC meaX tsyhwin, literally “buy + springtime”).

Date of first use in Japanese is uncertain.

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) いしゅん [bàíshúń] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
  • IPA(key): [ba̠iɕɨ̃ᵝɴ]

Noun

(ばい)(しゅん) • (baishun) ばいしゆん (baisyun)?

  1. buying of sex, a visit to a prostitute

Verb

(ばい)(しゅん)する • (baishun suru) ばいしゆん (baisyun)?suru (stem (ばい)(しゅん) (baishun shi), past (ばい)(しゅん)した (baishun shita))

  1. to buy sex, to visit a prostitute
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
か(い)
Grade: 2
しゅん
Grade: 2
kun’yomi on’yomi

Phonological re-analysis of 買春(ばいしゅん) (baishun), replacing the on'yomi reading of bai with the kun'yomi reading of kai to avoid ambiguity with 売春 (baishun, prostitution, the selling of sex).[3]

Date of first use is uncertain, but it would be before the inclusion of this term in the 1999 law 児童買春処罰法 (Jidō Kaishun Shobatsu Hō, Act on Punishment of Activities Relating to Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, and the Protection of Children).[3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ka̠iɕɨ̃ᵝɴ]

Noun

買春(かいしゅん) • (kaishun) かひしゆん (kafisyun)?

  1. buying of sex

Verb

買春(かいしゅん)する • (kaishun suru) かひしゆん (kafisyun)?suru (stem 買春(かいしゅん) (kaishun shi), past 買春(かいしゅん)した (kaishun shita))

  1. to buy sex
Conjugation

Usage notes

かいしゅん (kaishun) is the more common reading for 買春(ばいしゅん) (baishun) to distinguish this from homophonic 売春(ばいしゅん) (baishun, prostitution).

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 買春”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

買春 • (maechun) (hangeul 매춘)

  1. Hanja form? of 매춘.
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