飛行機
See also: 飞行机
Chinese
to fly; to be in flight | machine; opportunity; secret | ||
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trad. (飛行機) | 飛行 | 機 | |
simp. (飞行机) | 飞行 | 机 | |
alternative forms | 飛龍機/飞龙机 (-lêng-; -nn̄g-) Hokkien 飛凌機/飞凌机 (-lêng-; -nn̄g-) Hokkien |
Etymology
Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 飛行機 (hikōki).
Pronunciation
Noun
飛行機
- (Taiwanese Hokkien, Taiwanese Hakka, dated in Mandarin) airplane; aeroplane (Classifier: 隻/只 mn)
- 等飛行機袂閣來 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
- From: 2018, 滅火器) (Fire EX.) 高雄大空襲桌遊主題曲 (Theme of Raid on Takao)
- tán poe-hêng-ki bē koh lâi [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
等飞行机袂阁来 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 飛機 (“airplane”) [map]
Further reading
Japanese
Kanji in this term | ||
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飛 | 行 | 機 |
ひ Grade: 4 |
こう Grade: 2 |
き Grade: 4 |
kan’on |
Alternative spelling |
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飛行器 (obsolete) |
Etymology
First attested in 1908, cited from the 万朝報 (Yorozu Chōho) serial in its October 3 issue.[1]
From 飛行 (hikō, “flying, flight”) + 機 (-ki, “machine”), a calque of English flying machine.
Noun
飛行機 • (hikōki) ←ひかうき (fikauki)? (counter 機)
- an airplane, aeroplane
- (obsolete) Clipping of 空中飛行機 (kūchū hikōki): a flying machine
- 1904, Ryōichi Yazu, Hayakuri jisho [Quick Reference Kanji Dictionary], page 3:
- 鳥は輕ひ瓦斯にて浮んで居るのではないと云ふことに心付いて、空氣の抵抗力を利用して空中に浮び、而して飛行せんとする所の飛行機 Flying machine を發明せんと企てた所の人士も古來少くありません。
- Tori wa karui gasu ni te ukande iru no de wa nai to iu koto ni kokorozuite, kūki no teikōryoku o riyō shite kūchū ni ukabi, shikashite hikō sen to suru tokoro no hikōki (furaingu mashin) o hatsumei sen to kuwadateta tokoro no jinshi mo korai sukunaku arimasen.
- There is no shortage of people from ancient times who, after realising that birds do not float upon a light gas, have plotted to invent flying machines that fly by floating in the air by using air resistance.
- 鳥は輕ひ瓦斯にて浮んで居るのではないと云ふことに心付いて、空氣の抵抗力を利用して空中に浮び、而して飛行せんとする所の飛行機 Flying machine を發明せんと企てた所の人士も古來少くありません。
Derived terms
- 飛行機雲 (hikōkigumo)
- 紙飛行機 (kamihikōki)
- 鴨型飛行機 (kamogata hikōki)
- 空中飛行機 (kūchū hikōki)
- 軽飛行機 (keihikōki)
- 高翼飛行機 (kōyoku hikōki)
- 三葉飛行機 (san'yō hikōki)
- 人力飛行機 (jinryoku hikōki)
- 水上飛行機 (suijō hikōki)
- 陸上飛行機 (rikujō hikōki)
Descendants
References
- Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- 2000, Jonathan Bunt, Gillian Hall, The Oxford Starter Japanese Dictionary, First Edition, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
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