風車

風車

1. windmill
2. winnower
3. pinwheel
4. (Min Nan) automobile; motor car; sedan

• (windmill): (Min Nan) 蟧蜈車／𮔚蜈车
• (automobile):

風車 (fūsha, kazaguruma): a windmill.

From Middle Chinese 風車 (MC pɨuŋ t͡ɕʰia, “wind + machine”).

• On’yomi: Goon
  • (Tokyo) ふ​うしゃ [fúꜜùshà] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2][3]
  • (Tokyo) ふうしゃ [fùúshá] (Heiban – [0])[1][2][3]
  • IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝːɕa̠]

風車 (hiragana ふうしゃ, rōmaji fūsha)

1. a windmill (structure)

• (windmill): ウィンドミル (windomiru) (rare)

風車 (kazaguruma): a pinwheel.

風車 (kazaguruma): the Clematis patens flower.

Compound of 風 (kaza, “wind”, the older combining form) +‎ 車 (kuruma, “wheel”). The kuruma changes to guruma as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) かざぐ​るま [kàzágúꜜrùmà] (Nakadaka – [3])[1][2][3]
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠za̠ɡɯ̟ᵝɾɯ̟ᵝma̠]

風車 (hiragana かざぐるま, rōmaji kazaguruma)

1. a windmill (structure)
2. a pinwheel, a toy that spins in the wind

   ね、風 (かぜ)が吹 (ふ)いているよ、風 (かざ)車 (ぐるま)を回 (まわ)そう。

   Ne, kaze ga fuite iru yo, kazaguruma o mawasō.

   Hey, the wind's blowing, let's spin pinwheels.

3. a crest in the shape of a windmill or pinwheel
4. (figuratively) economic disadvantage, a difficult life
5. (shogi) the “windmill opening” in shogi
6. a kind of clematis flower, the Clematis patens

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as カザグルマ.

• (windmill): ウィンドミル (windomiru) (rare)

• 風 (ふう)力 (りょく)原 (げん)動 (どう)機 (き) (fūryoku gendōki): wind power

風車 • (pungcha, McCune-Reischauer: p'ungch'a, Yale: phungcha) (hangeul 풍차)

1. Hanja form^? of 풍차 (“windmill”).