扶正
Chinese
| to support with hand; to help someone up; to help | just (right); main; upright just (right); main; upright; straight; correct; principle; Chinese 1st month of year | ||
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| simp. and trad. (扶正) |
扶 | 正 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: fúzhèng
- Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ ㄓㄥˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: fújhèng
- Wade–Giles: fu2-chêng4
- Yale: fú-jèng
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwujenq
- Palladius: фучжэн (fučžɛn)
- Sinological IPA (key): /fu³⁵ ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: fu4 zeng3
- Yale: fùh jeng
- Cantonese Pinyin: fu4 dzeng3
- Guangdong Romanization: fu4 zéng3
- Sinological IPA (key): /fuː²¹ t͡sɛːŋ³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Hakka
- (Changting)
- Changting Pinyin: pu2 zheng4
- Sinological IPA: /pʰu²⁴ t͡ʃeŋ⁵⁴/
- (Changting)
Verb
扶正
- (historical) to elevate (a concubine) to the status of wife
- to set upright or straight
- to promote (someone) from deputy to principal, or from a part-time employee to a full-time one
Derived terms
- 扶正祛邪
- 扶正黜邪
References
- 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “扶正”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 510.