必珠卜

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Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (必珠卜)		必	珠	卜

Etymology

Borrowed from English Pittsburgh, via Cantonese.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Bìzhūbǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ ㄓㄨㄅㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bit¹ zyu¹ buk¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Bìzhūbǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ ㄓㄨㄅㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Bìjhubǔ
  - Wade–Giles: Pi⁴-chu¹-pu³
  - Yale: Bì-jū-bǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Bihjubuu
  - Palladius: Бичжубу (Bičžubu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵ pu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bit¹ zyu¹ buk¹
  - Yale: bīt jyū būk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bit⁷ dzy¹ buk⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: bid¹ ju¹ bug¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːt̚⁵ t͡syː⁵⁵ pʊk̚⁵/

Proper noun

必珠卜

(obsolete) Pittsburgh (a city in Pennsylvania, United States)
- 1904, Liang Qichao, 新大陸遊記 , 廣智書局, published 1907, page 121:
  
  必珠卜者，鋼鐵大王卡匿奇之老營也。
  必珠卜者，钢铁大王卡匿奇之老营也。
  From: 1919, 梁啟超《新大陸遊記》
  Bìzhūbǔ zhě, gāngtiě dàwáng Kǎnìqí zhī lǎoyíng yě.
  Pittsburgh was where the king of steel, Carnegie once worked.
- 吳伯鰲為必珠卜中國國民黨分部正部長
  吴伯鳌为必珠卜中国国民党分部正部长
  From: 1913, 孫中山《委任吳伯羣等職務狀》
  Wú Bó'áo wéi Bìzhūbǔ Zhōngguó Guómíndǎng Fēnbù Zhèngbùzhǎng
  Wu Bo'ao was the Chief of the Pittsburgh branch of the Nationalist Party of China

Synonyms

匹茲堡／匹兹堡 (Pǐzībǎo)

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