文法

Chinese

		language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle	law; method; way law; method; way; Buddhist teaching; Legalist; France (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (文法)		文	法
anagram		法文

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wénfǎ

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˊ ㄈㄚˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴ faat³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): vùn-fap
• Eastern Min (BUC): ùng-huák
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bûn-hoat
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶ven-faq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wénfǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˊ ㄈㄚˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wúnfǎ
    • Wade–Giles: wên²-fa³
    • Yale: wén-fǎ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wenfaa
    • Palladius: вэньфа (vɛnʹfa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən³⁵ fä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: man⁴ faat³
    • Yale: màhn faat
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴ faat⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: men⁴ fad³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹ faːt̚³/
    • Homophones:

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• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vùn-fap
    • Hakka Romanization System: vun^ˇ fab^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: vun² fab⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /vun¹¹ fap̚²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ùng-huák
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /uŋ⁵³⁻²¹ ^(h-)ŋuɑʔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bûn-hoat
    • Tâi-lô: bûn-huat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bunhoad
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bun²⁴⁻²² huat̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bun²⁴⁻²² huat̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bun¹³⁻²² huat̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bun²⁴⁻¹¹ huat̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bun²³⁻³³ huat̚³²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶ven-faq
    • MiniDict: ven^去 fah
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³ven-faq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /vən²² faʔ⁴⁴/

Etymology 1

Reborrowing from Japanese 文法(ぶんぽう) (bunpō).

Noun

文法

1. grammar (system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language)

Synonyms

• 語法／语法 (yǔfǎ)

Derived terms

• 文法學校／文法学校 (wénfǎ xuéxiào)

 

Etymology 2

Attestable in Classical Chinese.

Noun

文法

1. (archaic) written law; statute

Japanese

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

文法

Wikipedia ^ja

Kanji in this term
文	法
ぶん Grade: 1	ほう > ぽう Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ぶんぽー [bùńpóó] (Heiban – [0])^[1][2][3]
• IPA^(key): [bɯ̟̃mpo̞ː]

Noun

文(ぶん)法(ぽう) • (bunpō) ^{←ぶんぱふ (bunpafu)?}

1. grammar

References

1. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
3. Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
文	法

Noun

文法 • (munbeop) (hangeul 문법)

1. hanja form^? of 문법 (“grammar”)