# 屏風
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): píngfēng
    (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄥˊ ㄈㄥ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): ping$^4$ fung$^1$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phìn-fûng
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pîn-hong
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: píngfēng
*** Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄥˊ ㄈㄥ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: píngfong
*** Wade–Giles: pʻing$^2$-fêng$^1$
*** Yale: píng-fēng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyngfeng
*** Palladius: пинфэн (pinfɛn)
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰiŋ³⁵ fɤŋ⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: ping$^4$ fung$^1$
*** Yale: pìhng fūng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: ping$^4$ fung$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ping$^4$ fung$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰɪŋ²¹ fʊŋ⁵⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phìn-fûng
*** Hakka Romanization System: pin$^ˇ$ fung$^ˊ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: pin$^2$ fung$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /pʰin¹¹ fuŋ²⁴/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pîn-hong
*** Tâi-lô: pîn-hong
*** Phofsit Daibuun: pinhofng
*** IPA (Xiamen): /pin²⁴⁻²² hɔŋ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /pin²⁴⁻²² hɔŋ³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /pin¹³⁻²² hɔŋ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /pin²⁴⁻¹¹ hɔŋ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /pin²³⁻³³ hɔŋ⁴⁴/

### Noun

屏風
* folding screen (temporary partition) (Classifier: 扇)
    放上屏風／放上屏风 ― fàng shàng píngfēng ― to put up a screen

#### Synonyms

* (Hokkien) 紮屏／扎屏, 閘屏／闸屏, 徛屏

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: 屏風(びょうふ) (byōfu)
* → Korean: 병풍(屛風) (byeongpung)
* → Vietnamese: bình phong (屏風)

## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 屏 | 風 |
| びょう Hyōgai | ふ > ぶ Grade: 2 |
| goon ||
* Alternative spelling
* 屛風 (kyūjitai)

### Etymology

From Middle Chinese 屏風 / 屏风 (beng pjuwng). Compare modern Mandarin 屏風 / 屏风 (píngfēng). First mention in Japanese recorded history was in reference to a gift in 686 from the Silla kingdom on the Korean peninsula.

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) びょーぶ [byòóbú] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [bʲo̞ːbɯ̟]

### Noun

屏(びょう)風(ぶ) • (byōbu)
* a folding screen

#### Usage notes

The byōbu is different from the 衝立障子 (tsuitate shōji, another kind of folding screen) in that the byōbu is made of solid panels typically covered in lacquer, gold leaf, or a painted scene, while the tsuitate shōji is made from panels of shōji (a screen covered in rice paper).

#### Derived terms

* 屏風岩(びょうぶいわ) (byōbu iwa): a sheer cliff, a wall of rock
* 屏風絵(びょうぶえ) (byōbu e): a painting on a folding screen
* 屏風押さえ, 屏風押え, 屏風押(びょうぶおさえ) (byōbu osae): a lead or ceramic weight used to prop up a folding screen and keep it from falling over
* 屏風返し, 屏風反(びょうぶがえ)し (byōbugaeshi): falling over flat, much as a falling screen will fall over
* 屏風草(びょうぶぐさ) (byōbugusa): alternate for 防風 (bōfū), Saposhnikovia seseloides or Saposhnikovia divaricata, of family Apiaceae, used in Chinese medicine (kanpō)
* 屏風倒(びょうぶだお)し (byōbudaoshi): knocking something over flat, much as a folding screen will fall over
* 屏風山(びょうぶやま) (byōbu yama): a mountain with a very straight ridgeline, much like the top of a folding screen

#### Idioms

* 屏風(びょうぶ)と商人(あきんど)は直(すぐ)にては立(た)たぬ (byōbu to akindo wa sugu nite wa tatanu): "folding screens and business people don't get set up immediately" → setting up a folding screen or a business relationship takes time and preparation
* 屏風(びょうぶ)と商人(あきんど)は曲(ま)がらねば世(よ)に立(た)たず (byōbu to akindo wa magaraneba yo ni tatazu): "folding screens and business people won't stand in this world if they don't bend" → both folding screens and business people must be capable of bending (being flexible) if they are to stand up properly (be successful)
* 屏風(びょうぶ)を返(かえ)す (byōbu o kaesu): to knock something over flat, much as a folding screen will fall over
* 屏風畳(びょうぶたたみ)に炭油(すみあぶら) (byōbu tatami ni sumi abura): "folding screen / tatami mats, and charcoal / oil" → the various sundries needed for a household

#### Descendants

* Portuguese: biombo
** Galician: biombo
** Spanish: biombo

### References

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

## Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term :
| 屏 | 風 |

### Noun

屏風
* chữ Hán form of bình phong (“screen; blind”).