鞭毛

Chinese

		a whip or lash; to flog; slash or whip	hair; fur; one tenth of a yuan or dollar
simp. and trad. (鞭毛)		鞭	毛

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 鞭毛(べんもう) (benmō) (Huang, 2020).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): biānmáo

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢㄇㄠˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: biānmáo
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢㄇㄠˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bianmáo
  - Wade–Giles: pien¹-mao²
  - Yale: byān-máu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bianmau
  - Palladius: бяньмао (bjanʹmao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵⁵ mɑʊ̯³⁵/

Noun

鞭毛

(biology) flagellum [from 1910s]

Japanese

Kanji in this term
鞭	毛
べん Jinmeiyō	もう Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) べんもー [béꜜǹmòò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
IPA^(key): [bẽ̞mːo̞ː]

Noun

鞭(べん)毛(もう) • (benmō) ^{←べんもう (benmou)^?}

[from 1884] flagellum

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
鞭	毛

Noun

鞭毛 • (pyeonmo) (hangeul 편모)

hanja form^? of 편모 (“flagellum”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
鞭	毛

Noun

鞭毛

chữ Hán form of tiên mao (“flagellum”)