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新聞

新聞

See also: 新闻

Chinese

new; newly; meso- (chem.)
 
hear; news; celebrated; sniff at
trad. (新聞) 新 聞
simp. (新闻) 新 闻

Noun

新聞

  1. (countable, uncountable) news (reports of current events)   (Classifier: 條／条; 個／个)
    國營新聞媒體 / 国营新闻媒体  ―  guóyíng xīnwén méitǐ  ―  state-run news media

Usage notes

新聞／新闻 refers news as in reports of current events; to express the sense of news as in new information in general, use 消息 (xiāoxī).

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
新 聞
しん
Grade: 2 		ぶん
Grade: 2
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 新聞 ‎(sin mjun)

Pronunciation

Noun

新聞 ‎(hiragana しんぶん, romaji shinbun)

  1. newspaper

Compounds

Descendants

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
  3. ↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13143-0
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.

Korean

Hanja in this term
新 聞

Noun

新聞 • ‎(sinmun, McCune-Reischauer: sinmun, Yale: sinmun) ‎(hangeul 신문)

  1. Hanja form? of 신문, “newspaper”.

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word
新 聞

Noun

新聞

  1. Hán tự form of tân văn, “newspaper”

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), from Japanese 新聞 (しんぶん) ‎(shinbun, “news, newspaper”), semantically readapted from Chinese 新聞／新闻 (“recent events”).

Pronunciation

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