存亡

Chinese

		exist; deposit; store exist; deposit; store; keep; survive	to die; to perish
trad. (存亡)		存	亡
simp. #(存亡)		存	亡

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cúnwáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄣˊ ㄨㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun⁴ mong⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chûn-bông

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cúnwáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄣˊ ㄨㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cúnwáng
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻun²-wang²
    • Yale: tswún-wáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tswenwang
    • Palladius: цуньван (cunʹvan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯ən³⁵ wɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyun⁴ mong⁴
    • Yale: chyùhn mòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn⁴ mong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: qun⁴ mong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyːn²¹ mɔːŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chûn-bông
    • Tâi-lô: tsûn-bông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zunboong
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sun²⁴⁻²² bɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sun²⁴⁻²² bɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sun¹³⁻²² bɔŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sun²⁴⁻¹¹ bɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sun²³⁻³³ bɔŋ²³/

Verb

存亡

1. to live or die

Noun

存亡

1. life or death

Derived terms

• 危急存亡之秋 (wēijícúnwángzhīqiū)
• 存亡未卜
• 存亡絕續／存亡绝续
• 存亡繼絕／存亡继绝
• 死生存亡
• 治亂存亡／治乱存亡
• 生死存亡 (shēngsǐcúnwáng)
• 繼絕存亡／继绝存亡
• 興廢存亡／兴废存亡
• 進退存亡／进退存亡

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (存亡):

• → Japanese: 存(そん)亡(ぼう) (sonbō)
• → Korean: 존망(存亡) (jonmang)
• → Vietnamese: tồn vong (存亡)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
存	亡
そん Grade: 6	ぼう Grade: 6
on’yomi

Etymology

From Chinese 存亡 (cúnwáng).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) そんぼー [sòńbóó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [sõ̞mbo̞ː]

Noun

存(そん)亡(ぼう) • (sonbō) ^{←そんばう (sonbau)?}

1. life or death
   • 2017 July 14, “破(は)滅(めつ)の刻(とき) [Hour of Devastation]”, in 破滅の刻 [Hour of Devastation], Wizards of the Coast:

     「ここでは一(いっ)切(さい)の存(そん)亡(ぼう)は我(われ)の手(て)の上(うえ)よ。おぬしらゲートウォッチもな。」

     “Koko de wa issai no sonbō wa ware no te no ue yo. Onushira Gētowotchi mo na.”

     “Everything here exists or perishes at my whim. Including you, Gatewatch.”

Korean

Hanja in this term
存	亡

Noun

存亡 • (jonmang) (hangeul 존망)

1. Hanja form^? of 존망 (“life or death”).