美談

Chinese

		beautiful; beauty; America	to speak; to talk; to converse to speak; to talk; to converse; to chat; to discuss; surname
trad. (美談)		美	談
simp. (美谈)		美	谈

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): měitán

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˇ ㄊㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁵ taam⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bí-tâm

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: měitán
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˇ ㄊㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: měitán
  - Wade–Giles: mei³-tʻan²
  - Yale: měi-tán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meeitarn
  - Palladius: мэйтань (mɛjtanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰän³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: mei⁵ taam⁴
  - Yale: méih tàahm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁵ taam⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: méi⁵ tam⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mei̯¹³ tʰaːm²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bí-tâm
  - Tâi-lô: bí-tâm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: by'daam
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tam²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ tam²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tam¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tam²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tam²³/

Noun

美談

beautiful story; salutary tale

Japanese

Kanji in this term
美	談
び Grade: 3	だん Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) びだん [bíꜜdàǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
(Tokyo) びだん [bìdáń] (Heiban – [0])[1]
IPA^(key): [bʲidã̠ɴ]

Noun

美(び)談(だん) • (bidan) ^{←びだん (bidan)^?}

beautiful story

References

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

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