牽牛花

Chinese
longhorn beetle; longicorn
 
flower; blossom; to spend
flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern
trad. (牽牛花) 牽牛 花
simp. (牵牛花) 牵牛 花

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

牽牛花

  1. Japanese morning glory (Ipomoea nil)

Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 牽牛花 (“morning glory (Ipomoea nil)”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 牽牛花
Taxonomic name 牽牛
Mandarin Beijing 牽牛花兒, 喇叭花兒, 勤娘子
Taiwan 喇叭花, 牽牛花
Harbin 喇叭花兒, 爬山虎兒
Yantai (Muping) 大碗子花兒
Jinan 喇叭花
Luoyang 喇叭花兒
Wanrong 牽牛龍, 喇叭花
Xi'an 牽牛花
Yinchuan 喇叭花
Lanzhou 牽牛花, 喇叭花
Xining 牽牛子
Ürümqi 牽牛花兒
Wuhan 喇叭花
Chengdu 喇叭花, 牽牛花
Guiyang 牽牛花
Kunming 喇叭花
Liuzhou 喇叭花, 牽牛花
Xuzhou 牽牛花兒, 牽牛花, 喇叭花兒, 喇叭花
Yangzhou 喇叭花
Nanjing 喇叭花
Nantong 喇叭花
Cantonese Guangzhou 喇叭花, 哬哚花
Hong Kong 牽牛花, 喇叭花
Dongguan 喇叭花
Gan Nanchang 喇叭花
Lichuan 牽牛花
Pingxiang 喇叭花
Hakka Meixian 牽牛花, 喇叭花
Yudu 牽牛花
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 牽牛花
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 牽牛花
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 牽牛花
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 碗花, 牽牛花
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 牽牛花
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 牽牛花
Huizhou Jixi 喇叭花
Jin Taiyuan 牽牛花, 喇叭花
Xinzhou 牽牛牛花兒, 牽牛牛
Min Bei Jian'ou 喇叭花
Min Nan Xiamen 鼓吹花
Quanzhou 咹咹花
Zhangzhou 鼓吹花
Taipei 鼓吹花
Kaohsiung 鼓吹花
Yilan 鼓吹花
Changhua (Lukang) 鼓吹仔花
Taichung 鼓吹花
Taichung (Wuqi) 牽牛花
Tainan 喇叭花, 鼓吹花
Taitung 鼓吹花
Hsinchu 鼓吹花
Penghu (Magong) 鼓吹花
Penang (Hokkien) 喇叭花
Shantou 喇叭花
Shantou (Chaoyang) 番囝藤
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 哬哚花
Wu Shanghai 喇叭花
Shanghai (Chongming) 牽牛花, 喇叭花
Suzhou 喇叭花
Danyang 牽牛花, 喇叭花
Hangzhou 喇叭花
Ningbo 喇叭花
Wenzhou 牽牛花, 喇叭花
Jinhua 牽牛花, 喇叭花
Xiang Changsha 牽牛花, 喇叭花
Loudi 喇叭花

Descendants
Sino-Xenic (牽牛花):
  • → Japanese: 牽牛花(けんぎゅうか) (kengyūka); 牽牛花(けんごか) (kengoka)
  • → Korean: 견우화(牽牛花) (gyeonuhwa)

Japanese

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
牽 牛 花
けん
Jinmeiyō		 ぎゅう
Grade: 2		 か
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Borrowing from Chinese 牽牛花／牵牛花 (qiānniúhuā), compare Mandarin 牽牛花／牵牛花 (qiānniúhuā).

Pronunciation

Noun

牽(けん)牛(ぎゅう)花(か) • (kengyūka) ←けんぎうくわ (kengiukwa)?

  1. Synonym of 朝顔 (asagao): Japanese morning glory (Ipomoea nil)

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
牽 牛 花
けん
Jinmeiyō		 ご
Grade: 2		 か
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Possibly influenced by 牽牛子 (kengoshi, “Japanese morning glory seeds”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

Noun

牽(けん)牛(ご)花(か) • (kengoka) ←けんごくわ (kengokwa)?

  1. Synonym of 朝顔 (asagao): Japanese morning glory (Ipomoea nil)

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