桃源

Chinese

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Etymology

See 世外桃源 (shìwàitáoyuán).

Pronunciation

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Noun

桃源

  1. Short for 桃花源 (táohuāyuán, “The Peach Blossom Land; Shangri-La; Arcadia; lotus land; utopia”).

Synonyms
  • 桃溪

Derived terms

Descendants
Sino-Xenic (桃源):
  • → Japanese: Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • → Korean: 도원(桃源) (dowon)
  • → Vietnamese: đào nguyên (Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value))

Proper noun

桃源

  1. (～區, formerly ～鄉) Taoyuan (a district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, formerly a rural township)
  2. (～縣) Taoyuan County (a county of Hunan, China)
  3. (～鄉) Taoyuan (a township in Zhuxi, Shiyan, Hubei, China)

Japanese
Kanji in this term
桃 源
とう
Grade: S		 げん
Grade: 6
kan’on

Alternative forms

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Chinese 桃源 (táoyuán, “The Peach Blossom Land; Shangri-La; Arcadia; lotus land; utopia”).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) とーげん [tòógéń] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA(key): [to̞ːɡẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

桃(とう)源(げん) • (tōgen) ←たうげん (taugen)?

  1. Shangri-La; utopia

Synonyms

Vietnamese
chữ Hán Nôm in this term
桃源

Noun

桃源

  1. chữ Hán form of đào nguyên.
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