名刺

Chinese

		name; fame; to describe name; fame; to describe; place	thorn; sting; prick thorn; sting; prick; pierce; stab; thrust; assassinate; murder
simp. and trad. (名刺)		名	刺

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): míngcì

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄘˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ming⁴ ci³
Min Nan (POJ): bêng-chhì / miâ-chhì / mè-sì

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Pinyin: míngcì
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄘˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mingtsyh
  - Tongyong Pinyin: míngcìh
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ³⁵ t͡sʰz̩⁵¹/
  - Homophones:
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Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)
  - Jyutping: ming⁴ ci³
  - Yale: mìhng chi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ming⁴ tsi³
  - Guangdong Romanization: ming⁴ qi³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɪŋ²¹ t͡sʰiː³³/
  - Homophones:
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Min Nan
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bêng-chhì
  - Tâi-lô: bîng-tshì
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bengchix
  - IPA (Taipei): /biɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡ɕʰi¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɪŋ²³⁻³³ t͡ɕʰi²¹/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: miâ-chhì
  - Tâi-lô: miâ-tshì
  - Phofsit Daibuun: miachix
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /miã²³⁻³³ t͡ɕʰi²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /miã²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡ɕʰi¹¹/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mè-sì
  - Tâi-lô: mè-sì
  - Phofsit Daibuun: measix
  - IPA (Taipei): /mẽ¹¹⁻⁵³ ɕi¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /mẽ²¹⁻⁴¹ ɕi²¹/

Note: mè-sì - from Japanese.

Noun

名刺

(literary) visiting card; name card; business card

Usage notes

This word has largely been overtaken by its modern counterpart 名片 (míngpiàn).

Synonyms

名片 (míngpiàn)
(obsolete) 名帖 (míngtiě)
(Min Nan) 片單／片单

References

(Min Nan) “Entry #31100”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
名	刺
めい Grade: 1	し Grade: S
on’yomi

Pronunciation

On’yomi
- (Tokyo) めーし [mèéshí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
- IPA^(key): [me̞ːɕi]

Noun

名刺 (hiragana めいし, rōmaji meishi)

business card; calling card.
名 (めい)刺 (し)を出 (だ)す
meishi o dasu
to present one's calling card

名 (めい)刺 (し)の渡 (わた)し方 (かた)と受 (う)け取 (と)り方 (かた)
meishi no watashikata to uketorikata
the way of handing over and receiving business cards

名 (めい)刺 (し)交 (こう)換 (かん)
meishi kōkan
business card exchange

Usage notes

Counter is 枚 or 葉.

References

2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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