變壓器

See also: 变压器 and 変圧器

Chinese

		to change; to become different; to transform to change; to become different; to transform; to vary; rebellion	to crush; to press; to push down to crush; to press; to push down; to keep under (control); in the first place	device; tool; utensil
trad. (變壓器)		變	壓	器
simp. (变压器)		变	压	器

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 変(へん)圧(あつ)器(き) (hen'atsuki) (Liu et al., 1984; Huang, 2020), attested as early as 1913, in the second appendix of 《工業嘗試》 translated by Bai Pengfei.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): biànyāqì

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ ㄧㄚㄑㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bin³ aat³ hei³
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): beng⁴ ah⁶ ki⁴
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): piàn-ap-khì

(Teochew, Peng'im): biang³ iab⁴ ki³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: biànyāqì
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ ㄧㄚㄑㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: biànyacì
  - Wade–Giles: pien⁴-ya¹-chʻi⁴
  - Yale: byàn-yā-chì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bianniachih
  - Palladius: бяньяци (bjanʹjaci)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵¹ jä⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bin³ aat³ hei³
  - Yale: bin aat hei
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bin³ aat⁸ hei³
  - Guangdong Romanization: bin³ ad³ héi³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn³³ aːt̚³ hei̯³³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: beng⁴ ah⁶ ki⁴ [Phonetic: beng⁵ ah⁷ ki⁴]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: be̍ng-ah-ki̍
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛŋ⁴²⁻¹¹ aʔ²¹⁻⁴⁵ kʰi⁴²/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: beng⁴ ah⁶ ki⁴ [Phonetic: beng⁵ ah⁷ ki⁴]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛŋ⁴²⁻²¹ aʔ²⁻⁴ kʰi⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piàn-ap-khì
  - Tâi-lô: piàn-ap-khì
  - Phofsit Daibuun: piern'apqix
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɛn²¹⁻⁴¹ ap̚³²⁻⁴ kʰi²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /piɛn¹¹⁻⁵³ ap̚³²⁻⁴ kʰi¹¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /piɛn²¹⁻⁵³ ap̚³²⁻⁴ kʰi²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: biang³ iab⁴ ki³
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: piàng iap khì
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /piaŋ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ iap̚²⁻⁴ kʰi²¹³/

Noun

變壓器

(electronics) transformer
降壓變壓器／降压变压器 ― jiàngyā biànyāqì ― step-down transformer

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 變壓器 (“transformer”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		變壓器
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	變壓器
Cantonese	Guangzhou	火牛
	Hong Kong	火牛
	Taishan	火牛
	Dongguan	火牛
Hakka	Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua)	火牛
Southern Min	Xiamen	變壓器
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	火牛
	Jieyang	火牛
Wu	Shanghai	方棚

Derived terms

自耦變壓器 / 自耦变压器

References

李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 40.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
變	壓	器
へん Hyōgai	あつ Hyōgai	き Grade: 4
on'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 變壓器 – see the following entry.

【変圧器へんあつき】

[noun] transformer (device that changes the characteristics of AC electricity)

(This term, 變壓器, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)