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林檎

林檎

Chinese

woods; forest (fruit)
simp. and trad.
(林檎)

Pronunciation


Noun

林檎

  1. Malus asiatica (Chinese pear-leaved crabapple)
  2. wedding gift

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Japanese 林檎 (りんご) (ringo).

Pronunciation


Noun

林檎

  1. (Taiwanese Min Nan and Hakka) apple

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 蘋果 (“apple”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 蘋果
Taxonomic name 蘋果
Mandarin Beijing 蘋果
Taiwan 蘋果
Harbin 蘋果
Jinan 蘋果
Muping 蘋果
Luoyang 蘋果
Wanrong 蘋果
Xi'an 蘋果
Xining 蘋果
Xuzhou 蘋果
Yinchuan 蘋果
Ürümqi 蘋果果子
Wuhan 蘋果
Chengdu 蘋果
Guiyang 蘋果
Liuzhou 蘋果
Yangzhou 蘋果
Nanjing 蘋果
Cantonese Guangzhou 蘋果
Hong Kong 蘋果
Dongguan 蘋果
Taishan 蘋果
Gan Nanchang 蘋果
Lichuan 蘋果
Pingxiang 蘋果
Hakka Meixian 蘋果
Yudu 蘋果
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 林檎
Liudui (S. Sixian) 林檎
Hsinchu (Hailu) 林檎
Dongshi (Dabu) 林檎蘋果
Zhuolan (Raoping) 林檎
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 蘋果林檎
Hui Jixi 蘋果
Jin Taiyuan 蘋果
Xinzhou 蘋果
Min Bei Jian'ou 蘋果
Min Dong Fuzhou 蘋果
Min Nan Quanzhou 蘋果
Xiamen 蘋果
Zhangzhou 蘋果
Taipei 瓜果
Kaohsiung 林檎蘋果
Tainan 林檎蘋果
Taichung 林檎蘋果
Yilan 林檎蘋果
Lukang 蘋果
Sanxia 瓜果
Kinmen 蘋果
Magong 蘋果林檎
Hsinchu 林檎
Malaysia 蘋果
Chaozhou 蘋果
Haikou 蘋果
Pinghua Nanning 蘋果
Wu Shanghai 蘋果
Suzhou 蘋果
Hangzhou 蘋果
Wenzhou 蘋果
Chongming 蘋果
Danyang 蘋果
Jinhua 蘋果
Ningbo 蘋果
Xiang Changsha 蘋果
Loudi 蘋果

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
りん
Grade: 1

Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

林檎 (hiragana りんご, katakana リンゴ, romaji ringo)

  1. apple (fruit, tree)
Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana in biological contexts, as リンゴ.

Synonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
Grade: 1 Jinmeiyō
Irregular

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
  • IPA(key): [rjɯᵝːɡ̃o̞ː]

Noun

林檎 (hiragana りゅうごう, romaji ryūgō, historical hiragana りうごう)

  1. (obsolete) apple (fruit, tree)

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9