機運

Chinese

		machine; opportunity; secret	to move; to transport; to use to move; to transport; to use; to apply; fortune; luck; fate
trad. (機運)		機	運
simp. (机运)		机	运

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jīyùn

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄩㄣˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gei¹ wan⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jīyùn
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄩㄣˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jiyùn
  - Wade–Giles: chi¹-yün⁴
  - Yale: jī-yùn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiyunn
  - Palladius: цзиюнь (czijunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵ yn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: gei¹ wan⁶
  - Yale: gēi wahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gei¹ wan⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: géi¹ wen⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kei̯⁵⁵ wɐn²²/

Noun

機運

opportunity; chance; lucky chance

Synonyms

商機 / 商机 (shāngjī) (business opportunity)
因緣 / 因缘 (yīnyuán)
契機 / 契机 (qìjī)
戰機 / 战机 (zhànjī) (opportunity for victory in battle)
時機 / 时机 (shíjī)
機會 / 机会 (jīhuì)
機遇 / 机遇 (jīyù)
火候 (huǒhòu) (figurative)
空子 (kòngzi) (opportunity to take advantage of)
空隙 (kòngxì)
節裉兒 / 节裉儿 (Xinzhou)
縫縫 / 缝缝 (fong⁴ fong^4-1) (Sichuanese, Wu)
縫縫兒 / 缝缝儿 (fong⁴ fongr^4-1) (Sichuanese)
茬口 (chákǒu) (regional)
遇 (yù) (literary, or in compounds)
際遇 / 际遇 (jìyù) (literary)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
機	運
き Grade: 4	うん Grade: 3
kan'on	on'yomi

Etymology

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 機運 (MC kj+j hjunH, literally “opportunity, chance + fortune, luck”), although possibly a learned borrowing from modern written Chinese 機運 / 机运 (jīyùn). First cited to the early 1800s.^[1]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) きうん [kíꜜùǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]
(Tokyo) きうん [kìúń] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
IPA^(key): [kʲiɯ̟̃ɴ]

Noun

機(き)運(うん) • (kiun) ^{←きうん (kiun)^?}

[from 1807–1811] opportunity, chance, timing, time for something to happen or be done
Synonyms: 機会 (kikai), 時機 (jiki), 折 (ori), きっかけ (kikkake), タイミング (taimingu), チャンス (chansu)
- 2025 August 13 (last accessed), 森山裕 [Hiroshi Moriyama], quotee, “第217回国会　衆議院　本会議　第2号　令和7年1月27日 [217th Diet, House of Representatives, Plenary Session No. 2, January 27, 2025]”, in 国会会議録検索システム [Diet Proceedings Search System]‎^[1], 国立国会図書館 [National Diet Library]:
  さらに、世界では脱炭素に向けた機運が急速に高まっており、脱炭素電源の確保も不可欠であります。
  Sara ni, sekai de wa datsu-tanso ni muketa kiun ga kyūsoku ni takamatte ori, datsu-tanso dengen no kakuho mo fukaketsu de ari masu.
  Furthermore, momentum toward decarbonization is rapidly increasing around the world, making it essential to secure decarbonized power sources.

References

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

“機運”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025
Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
Matsumura, Akira, editor (1995), 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN