吧城

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Chinese

		phonetic	city walls; city; town
simp. and trad. (吧城)		吧	城
alternative forms		巴城

Etymology

Derived from Dutch Batavia.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Bāchéng

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄚㄔㄥˊ
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): Pa-siâⁿ

(Teochew, Peng'im): ba¹ sian⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Bāchéng
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄚㄔㄥˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Bachéng
  - Wade–Giles: Pa¹-chʻêng²
  - Yale: Bā-chéng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Bacherng
  - Palladius: Бачэн (Bačɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, dated in Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pa-siâⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: Pa-siânn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pasviaa
  - IPA (Xiamen): /pa⁴⁴⁻²² siã²⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pa⁴⁴⁻³³ siã²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pa⁴⁴⁻³³ siã²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ba¹ sian⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pa siâⁿ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa³³⁻²³ sĩã⁵⁵/

Proper noun

吧城

(historical or dialect) Batavia (the capital city of the Dutch East Indies); modern Jakarta
- File:PKI-1925-Commisariate_Batavia.jpg
  亞洲印度共產黨　吧城支部委員辦事處 [MSC, trad.]
  亚洲印度共产党　吧城支部委员办事处 [MSC, simp.]
  Yàzhōu Yìndù Gòngchǎndǎng, Bāchéng zhībù wěiyuán bànshìchù
  Communist Party of Indonesia, Batavia Commissariat

Synonyms

勿礁維／勿礁维
巴達維亞／巴达维亚 (Bādáwéiyà)
八打威 (Bādǎwēi)

References

Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “pa”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 353; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 353

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