發芽

See also: 发芽

Chinese

		to grow out	bud; sprout
trad. (發芽)		發	芽
simp. (发芽)		发	芽

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fāyá

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄚ ㄧㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faat³ ngaa⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fat-ngà
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoat-gê / hoat-gêe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fāyá
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄚ ㄧㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fayá
    • Wade–Giles: fa¹-ya²
    • Yale: fā-yá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: faya
    • Palladius: фая (faja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fä⁵⁵ jä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faat³ ngaa⁴
    • Yale: faat ngàh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faat⁸ ngaa⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: fad³ nga⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːt̚³ ŋaː²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fat-ngà
    • Hakka Romanization System: fad` ngaˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fad⁵ nga²
    • Sinological IPA: /fat̚² ŋa¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoat-gê
    • Tâi-lô: huat-gê
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoatgee
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /huat̚³²⁻⁴ ɡe²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /huat̚³²⁻⁴ ɡe²³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /huat̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɡe²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoat-gêe
    • Tâi-lô: huat-gêe
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huat̚³²⁻⁵ ɡɛ¹³/

Verb

發芽

1. (botany) to sprout; to germinate; to bud

   生根發芽／生根发芽  ―  shēnggēn fāyá  ―  to take root and germinate

Synonyms

• 出息 (Hakka)
• 出芽 (chūyá)
• 出苗 (chūmiáo)
• 出青 (Hokkien)
• 必目 (Hakka)
• 必筍／必笋 (Hakka)
• 抽筍／抽笋 (Hakka)
• 抽芽 (chōuyá)
• 暴穎／暴颖 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 暴筍／暴笋 (Hakka)
• 暴芽 (Hokkien)
• 權輿／权舆 (quányú) (literary)
• 爆穎／爆颖 (pok-íⁿ) (Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 爆芽 (bau⁴ nga⁴) (Gan, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 生筍／生笋 (Hakka)
• 生芽 (Hakka)
• 發穎／发颖 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 綻筍／绽笋 (Hakka)
• 萌 (literary, or in compounds)
• 萌動／萌动 (méngdòng)
• 萌發／萌发 (méngfā)
• 萌芽 (méngyá)
• 露苗 (lòumiáo)

 

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 發芽 – see 暴芽 (“to germinate; to sprout; to bud”). (This term is a variant form of 暴芽).