牌樓
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Chinese
cards; game pieces; signboard cards; game pieces; signboard; plate; tablet |
house with more than 1 story; storied building; floor | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (牌樓) | 牌 | 樓 | |
| simp. (牌楼) | 牌 | 楼 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄞˊ ㄌㄡˊ → ㄆㄞˊ ˙ㄌㄡ (toneless final syllable variant)
- Tongyong Pinyin: páilo̊u
- Wade–Giles: pʻai2-lou5
- Yale: pái-lou
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pair.lou
- Palladius: пайлоу (pajlou)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰaɪ̯³⁵ loʊ̯³⁵/ → /pʰaɪ̯³⁵ loʊ̯³/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: paai4 lau4
- Yale: pàaih làuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: paai4 lau4
- Guangdong Romanization: pai4 leo4
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰaːi̯²¹ lɐu̯²¹/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: pai3 leu3
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰai²² leu²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
牌樓
- (architecture) pailou (traditional style of Chinese architectural arch or gateway structure)
- (in English), Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 343:
- A little farther down we saw three tiny beehive stone huts, the place being called Palo, which is obviously a corruption of the Chinese p’ai-lou, and may mean that at some time in the past the Chinese advanced a border post thus far, claiming a frontier beyond the Karakoram.]
Synonyms
- 牌坊 (páifāng)
Derived terms
Proper noun
牌樓