郵便局

See also: 邮便局

Chinese

postal service situation; office; (a measure word used for games) set or round office
trad. (郵便局) 郵便 局
simp. (邮便局) 邮便 局

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 郵(ゆう)便(びん)局(きょく) (yūbinkyoku).

Pronunciation


Noun

郵便局

  1. (obsolete or Taiwanese Hokkien, Taiwanese Hakka, Northeastern Mandarin) post office

Synonyms

Japanese

郵便局 (yūbinkyoku): a post office.
Kanji in this term
郵 便 局
ゆう
Grade: 6
びん
Grade: 4
きょく
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Etymology

郵便 (“postal service”) +‎ 局 (“office”)

Pronunciation

    • (Tokyo) ゆうび​んきょく [yùúbíꜜǹkyòkù] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
    • IPA(key): [jɯ̟ᵝːbʲĩŋʲkʲo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

    Noun

    郵(ゆう)便(びん)局(きょく) • (yūbinkyoku) ←いうびんきよく (iubinkyoku)?

    1. post office; postal centre

    Derived terms

    • 特定郵便局(とくていゆうびんきょく) (tokuteiyu ubinkyoku): special post office
    • 郵便局長(ゆうびんきょくちょう) (yūbinkyokuchō): post master
    • 郵便局員(ゆうびんきょくいん) (yūbinkyokuin): postal clerk

    See also

    References

    1. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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