onsen

From Japanese 温泉 (onsen), from Middle Chinese 溫泉 (ʔwon-dzüen, “hot spring[s]”), from 溫／温 (“warm”) + 泉 (“spring[s]”). Compare the modern Mandarin pronunciation 溫泉／温泉 (wēnquán).

• IPA^(key): /ɒnˈsɛn/, /ˈɒnsɛn/

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onsen (plural onsen or onsens)

1. A (Japanese) hot spring.

   The hottest springs in Japan aren't in the north but at the Obama Onsen outside Nagasaki.

2. A Japanese-style resort hotel at a natural hot spring, offering on-site bathing.

   We stayed at a traditional onsen with tatami, yukata, and kaiseki at Onyang outside Seoul.

• (Japanese hot spring): hot spring
• (traditional Japanese-style inn): ryokan

• Nones, Sonne, neons, nones, sonne

From Japanese 温泉(おんせん) (onsen, “hot spring”), from Middle Chinese 溫泉／温泉 (ʔwon-dzüen, “hot spring”).

• IPA^(key): /on.sɛn/
• Hyphenation: on‧sèn

onsen (first-person possessive onsenku, second-person possessive onsenmu, third-person possessive onsennya)

1. hot spring, onsen.

• “onsen” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Japanese.

onsen m (invariable)

1. onsen

• se non, senno, sennò

onsen

1. Rōmaji transcription of おんせん

onsen m (plural onsens)

1. onsen (a Japanese hot spring)

onsen m (plural onsens)

1. onsen