温泉

See also: 溫泉

Chinese
For pronunciation and definitions of 温泉 – see 溫泉 (“hot spring; spa; onsen; etc.”).
(This term, 温泉, is the simplified and variant traditional form of 溫泉.)
Notes:

Japanese
温泉 (onsen): an onsen or hot spring in Nachikatsuura, Japan
Kanji in this term
温 泉
おん
Grade: 3		 せん
Grade: 6
kan’on
Alternative spelling
溫泉 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

/wonsen/ → /onsen/

From Middle Chinese 溫泉 (MC ʔuən d͡ziuᴇn, literally “warm + spring”). Compare modern Chinese 溫泉／温泉 (wēnquán).

Pronunciation

Noun

温(おん)泉(せん) • (onsen) ←をんせん (wonsen)?

  1. a hot spring
    • 1997 August 12, Maekawa, Takeshi, “未(み)知(ち)なる大(だい)地(ち)への巻(まき) [To the Strange Land]”, in 新(しん)鉄(てっ)拳(けん)チンミ [New Ironfist Chinmi], volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 26:
      なるほど　温(おん)泉(せん)ってのはいいですね——っ
      Naru hodo Onsen tte no wa ii desu ne——'
      Of course. It’d be great to go to a hot spring
  2. a spa, an onsen

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • 温(おん)泉(せん)街(がい) (onsengai): a hot spring resort, a hot spring town
  • 温(おん)泉(せん)学(がく) (onsengaku): balneology
  • 温(おん)泉(せん)郷(きょう) (onsenkyō): a hot spring village
  • 温(おん)泉(せん)旅(りょ)館(かん) (onsen ryokan): a hot spring inn, spa hotel
  • 温(おん)泉(せん)療(りょう)法(ほう) (onsen ryōhō): hot spring therapy
  • 天(てん)然(ねん)温(おん)泉(せん) (tennen onsen)

Descendants
  • → English: onsen
  • → Russian: онсэ́н m (onsɛ́n)

See also

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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