新聞
See also: 新闻
Chinese
new; newly; meso- (chem.) | hear; news; celebrated; sniff at | ||
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trad. (新聞) | 新 | 聞 | |
simp. (新闻) | 新 | 闻 |
Etymology
Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 新聞 (shinbun, “news, newspaper”), which was in turn a semantic readaptation of Chinese 新聞/新闻 (xīnwén, “recent events”).
Pronunciation
Noun
新聞
Usage notes
新聞/新闻 (xīnwén) refers news as in reports of current events; to express the sense of news as in new information in general, use 消息 (xiāoxi).
Derived terms
Derived terms from 新聞
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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新 | 聞 |
しん Grade: 2 |
ぶん Grade: 2 |
on’yomi |
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 新聞 (sin mjun)
References
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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