火箭

Chinese

		fire; angry; fierce fire; angry; fierce; fiery; thriving	arrow
trad. (火箭)		火	箭
simp. #(火箭)		火	箭

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huǒjiàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄐㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fo² zin³

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fó-chien
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hér-chìⁿ / hé-chìⁿ / hóe-chìⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huǒjiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄐㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huǒjiàn
    • Wade–Giles: huo³-chien⁴
    • Yale: hwǒ-jyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huoojiann
    • Palladius: хоцзянь (xoczjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fo² zin³
    • Yale: fó jin
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fo² dzin³
    • Guangdong Romanization: fo² jin³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔː³⁵ t͡siːn³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fó-chien
    • Hakka Romanization System: fo^ˋ jien
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fo³ jian⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /fo³¹ t͡si̯en⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hér-chìⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: hér-tsìnn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hə⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sĩ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Taipei, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hé-chìⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: hé-tsìnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hefcvix
    • IPA (Taipei): /he⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sĩ¹¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /he⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sĩ²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou, Penang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hóe-chìⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: hué-tsìnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoefcvix
    • IPA (Penang): /hue⁴⁴⁵⁻³³ t͡sĩ²¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hue⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sĩ²¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hue⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sĩ²¹/

Noun

火箭

1. (historical) fire arrow

   • 昭於是以火箭逆射其雲梯，梯然，梯上人皆燒死。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     昭于是以火箭逆射其云梯，梯然，梯上人皆烧死。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Chen Shou, Records of the Three Kingdoms, circa 3^rd century CE

     Zhāo yúshì yǐ huǒjiàn nì shè qí yúntī, tī rán, tī shàng rén jiē shāo sǐ. [Pinyin]

     So Zhao shot the scaling ladder back with fire arrows. The ladder was on fire, and everyone on the ladder burned to death.

2. (figurative) rocket (non-guided missile or vehicle propelled by a rocket engine) (shape resembles arrow)

   火箭按用途分為探空火箭和運載火箭。 [MSC, trad.]
   火箭按用途分为探空火箭和运载火箭。 [MSC, simp.]

   Huǒjiàn àn yòngtú fēnwéi tànkōng huǒjiàn hé yùnzài huǒjiàn. [Pinyin]

   Rockets are divided into sounding rockets and launch vehicles according to their purposes.

Derived terms

• 探空火箭 (tànkōng huǒjiàn)
• 火箭彈／火箭弹 (huǒjiàndàn)
• 火箭炮 (huǒjiànpào)
• 火箭筒 (huǒjiàntǒng)
• 運載火箭／运载火箭 (yùnzài huǒjiàn)

 

Proper noun

火箭

1. (Malaysia, colloquial) Democratic Action Party (from the rocket party symbol)

References

• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “火箭”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
• “Entry #1290”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
• Chia, Caroline, Hoogervorst, Tom, editors (2021), “Chapter 5 Native Lexical Innovation in Penang Hokkien: Thinking beyond Rojak”, in Sinophone Southeast Asia: Sinitic Voices across the Southern Seas (Chinese Overseas: History, Literature, and Society; 20 [Open Access])‎^[2], Brill, →ISBN, page 178