different between hangi vs hanzi

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori h?ngi.

Noun

hangi (countable and uncountable, plural hangis or hangi)

1. (New Zealand) A traditional M?ori method of cooking food using heated rocks buried in a pit oven.
2. (New Zealand, uncountable) Food cooked in this way.

Translations

Anagrams

• Ghani, Hagin, ahing, anigh, ghani

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????? (hangi), ????? (hangi, “which”), from older ????? (kang?), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (kank?, “which”), from Proto-Turkic [Term?], a derivation from the interrogative stem *ka-. Ultimately cognate to Turkish hani (“where”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (kanu, “what, which”), Karakhanid [script needed] (kay?, “what, which”), Bashkir ????? (qayhï, “which”), Kyrgyz ??? (kay, “what, which”), but its relation to the original word is obscure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha??i/

Pronoun

hangi

1. (interrogative) which

Declension

Usage notes

• Note: Declension of the singular form requires hangi-si, which literally translates to “which one, which of”.

Derived terms

• hangisi
• herhangi

Related terms

• hani
• kanca (“whithersoever, whither”)

References

English

Noun

hanzi (plural hanzi)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Hanzi

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin ?? (hànzì, “Han characters”), from Middle Chinese ? (xàn, “Han dynasty, China”) + ? (dzì, “[written] character”). Compare Cantonese ?? (hon³ zi⁶), Min Nan ?? (hàn-j?, hàn-l?) and Japanese ?? (kanji). Doublet of hanja, honji, and kanji.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /han.zi/
• Hyphenation: han?zi

Noun

hanzi (first-person possessive hanziku, second-person possessive hanzimu, third-person possessive hanzinya)

1. (colloquial) Hanzi; Chinese character.

Related terms

Shona

Etymology

From Afrikaans gans; compare Zulu ihansi.

Noun

hanzí 9 (plural hanzí 10)

1. goose