白金

Kineski

		white; empty; blank white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous	metal; gold; money
jedn. and trad. (白金)		白	金

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinjin): báijīn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄞˊ ㄐㄧㄣ

• Kantonski (Jyutping): baak⁶ gam¹
• Min Nan (POJ): pe̍h-kim / pe̍eh-kim

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinjin: báijīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄞˊ ㄐㄧㄣ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bairjin
    • Tongyong Pinyin: báijin
    • Wade–Giles: pai2-chin1
    • Sinological MFA ^(key): /paɪ̯³⁵ t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
• Kantonski
  • (Standard Kantonski, Guangzhou)
    • Jyutping: baak⁶ gam¹
    • Yale: baahk gām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baak⁹ gam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bag⁶ gem¹
    • Sinological MFA ^(key): /pɑːk̚² kɐm⁵⁵/
    • Homofoni:

      edit edit 白金 帛金

• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pe̍h-kim
    • Tâi-lô: pe̍h-kim
    • Phofsit Daibuun: peqkym
    • MFA (Taipei): /pe(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ kim⁴⁴/
    • MFA (Xiamen, Kaohsiung): /pe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ kim⁴⁴/
    • MFA (Quanzhou): /pe(ʔ)²⁴⁻² kim³³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pe̍eh-kim
    • Tâi-lô: pe̍eh-kim
    • MFA (Zhangzhou): /pɛ(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ kim⁴⁴/

Noun

白金

1. (informal) platinum Galicijski
2. white gold Galicijski
3. (archaic) silver Galicijski

Synonyms

• n

edit

• 鉑／铂

• 鉑金／铂金

• n 銀子／银子

Derived terms

• 白金卡
• 白金婚

• 白金漢／白金汉
• 白金漢宮／白金汉宫

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (白金):

• Japanese: 白金(はっきん) (hakkin)
• Korean: 백금 (白金, baekgeum)
• Vietnamese: bạch kim (白金)

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Japanski

Hemijski element
Pt
Prethodni: イリジウム (irijiumu) (Ir)
Sledeći: 金(きん) (kin) (Au)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
白	金
はく > はっ Stepen: 1	きん Stepen: 1
on’yomi

Originally from Middle Chinese compound 白金 (“white + metal”) in reference to silver. Consider 銀 (shirogane, older shirokane, “silver”, literally “white metal”), where shiro in isolation is spelled 白 and kane in isolation is spelled 金.

Repurposed by Japanese scientist Udagawa Yōan in 1834 as a compound of 白 (haku, “white”) +‎ 金 (kin, “gold”), in reference to the metal's description as “white gold” in earlier scientific works, such as Holandski witgoud.

Noun

白(はっ)金(きん) (hakkin) ^{←はくきん (fakukin)?}

1. platinum (metal)
2. (rare, possibly obsolete) silver, particularly silver powder used as a pigment

Usage notes

This reading hakkin is sometimes used erroneously to refer to white gold, due to one of the literal interpretations of the characters in the kanji spelling. The reading shirokin (see below) appears in some reference works with the meaning white gold, but the borrowed term ホワイトゴールド (howaito gōrudo) is much more common.

Synonyms

• (platinum): プラチナ (purachina)
• (silver): 銀(ぎん) (gin), 銀(しろがね) (shirogane)
• (silver powder): 銀(ぎん)粉(ぷん) (ginpun)

Descendants

• → Kineski: 白金 (báijīn)
• → Korejski: 백금 (baekgeum)
• → Vijetnamski: bạch kim

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
白	金
しろ Stepen: 1	きん Stepen: 1
yutōyomi

Compound of 白 (shiro, “white”) +‎ 金 (kin, “gold”). The use of the kun'yomi for the first character and the on'yomi for the second character points to a more recent derivation.

Noun

白(しろ)金(きん) (shirokin) 

1. (rare, possibly proscribed) white gold

Synonyms

• ホワイトゴールド (howaito gōrudo) (much more common)
• 白(はく)色(しょく)金(きん) (hakushokukin)

References

• 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan

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Korejski

Hanja in this term
白	金

Noun

白金 (baekgeum) (hangeul 백금)

1. Hanja form^? of 백금 (“platinum”).

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Vijetnamski

Hán tự in this word
白	金

Noun

白金

1. Hán tự form of bạch kim, “platinum”