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Chinese
Etymology
Phono-semantic matching of English San Francisco.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
三藩市
- (～, formerly ～埠)[note 1] (especially Cantonese) San Francisco (a city in California, United States)
Usage notes
- ^ Formerly referred to as 三藩市 or 三藩市埠 in an era where such cities were referred to as 埠 (equivalent to modern usage of 市; 埠 is no longer in use today), it is now known as simply 三藩市.
See also 三藩, where the resulting form 三藩市 was understood as having the optional 市 suffix.
Synonyms
- 三藩 (Sānfān)
- (obsolete) 山藩市 (Shānfānshì), 三凡市 (Sānfánshì)
Dialectal synonyms of
舊金山 (“San Francisco”)