母校

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Chinese

		female; mother	school; proofread; to check school; proofread; to check; to compare
simp. and trad. (母校)		母	校

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mǔxiào

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˇ ㄒㄧㄠˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁵ haau⁶
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): bió-hāu / bú-hāu / bó-hāu

(Teochew, Peng'im): bho² hao⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mǔxiào
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˇ ㄒㄧㄠˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mǔsiào
  - Wade–Giles: mu³-hsiao⁴
  - Yale: mǔ-syàu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muushiaw
  - Palladius: мусяо (musjao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: mou⁵ haau⁶
  - Yale: móuh haauh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁵ haau⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: mou⁵ hao⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯¹³ haːu̯²²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bió-hāu
  - Tâi-lô: bió-hāu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bioy'hau
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bio⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hau⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bú-hāu
  - Tâi-lô: bú-hāu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bw'hau
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hau²²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hau³³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /bu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hau³³/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bó-hāu
  - Tâi-lô: bó-hāu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: boy'hau
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hau³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hau²²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bho² hao⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: bó hău
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /bo⁵²⁻³⁵ hau³⁵/

Noun

母校

one's former school or college; alma mater

Japanese

Kanji in this term
母	校
ぼ Grade: 2	こう Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ぼこー (Atamadaka – )^[1]
IPA^(key):

Noun

母(ぼ)校(こう) • (bokō) ^{←ぼかう (bokau)^?}

alma mater

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
母	校

Noun

母校 • (mogyo) (hangeul 모교)

hanja form^? of 모교 (“alma mater”)

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