白雲

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See also: 白云

Chinese

		white; empty; blank white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous	cloud; Yunnan (abbrev.); surname
trad. (白雲)		白	雲
simp. (白云)		白	云

Wikipedia has articles on:

白雲 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
白雲 (Cantonese)
Pe̍h-hûn-khu (Southern Min)
Baiyun Mountain (English)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): báiyún

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄞˊ ㄩㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): baak⁶ wan⁴
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): pe̍h-hûn / pe̍eh-hûn

(Teochew, Peng'im): bêh⁸ hung⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: báiyún
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄞˊ ㄩㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: báiyún
  - Wade–Giles: pai²-yün²
  - Yale: bái-yún
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bairyun
  - Palladius: байюнь (bajjunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paɪ̯³⁵ yn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: baak⁶ wan⁴
  - Yale: baahk wàhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: baak⁹ wan⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: bag⁶ wen⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːk̚² wɐn²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pe̍h-hûn
  - Tâi-lô: pe̍h-hûn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: peqhuun
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pe(ʔ)²⁴⁻² hun²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ hun²³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pe(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ hun²⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /pe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ hun²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pe̍eh-hûn
  - Tâi-lô: pe̍eh-hûn
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɛ(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ hun¹³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bêh⁸ hung⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pe̍h hûng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /peʔ⁴⁻² huŋ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: baek hjun

Rime
Character	白	雲
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	陌 (113)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	II	III
Fanqie	傍陌切	王分切
Baxter	baek	hjun
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠæk̚/	/ɦɨun/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚak̚/	/ɦiun/
Shao Rongfen	/bak̚/	/ɣiuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/baɨjk̚/	/ɦun/
Li Rong	/bɐk̚/	/ɣiuən/
Wang Li	/bɐk̚/	/ɣĭuən/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱɐk̚/	/i̯uən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bó	yún
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bak⁶	wan⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*bˤrak ʷə/

(Zhengzhang): /*braːɡ ɢun/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	白	雲
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bái	yún
Middle Chinese	‹ bæk ›	‹ hjun ›
Old Chinese	/*bˁrak/	/*ʷə/
English	white	cloud
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be -t or -p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	白	雲
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	207	16358
Phonetic component	白	云
Rime group	鐸	文
Rime subdivision	0	2
Corresponding MC rime	白	雲
Old Chinese	/*braːɡ/	/*ɢun/

Noun

白雲

white cloud

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (白雲):

→ Japanese: 白(はく)雲(うん) (hakūn)
→ Korean: 백운(白雲) (baegun)

Proper noun

白雲

(～區) Baiyun (a district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China)
(～區) Baiyun (a district of Guiyang, Guizhou, China)
(～山) Baiyun Mountain (a mountain range in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China)
(～礦區) Short for 白雲鄂博／白云鄂博 (Báiyún Èbó, “Bayan Obo”).
(～村) Baiyun (a rural village in Jiaoxi, Yilan County, Taiwan)

Synonyms

(Baiyun Mountain): 雲山／云山 (Yúnshān)

See also

(ranges): 大庾 (Dàyǔ), 南嶺／南岭 (Nánlǐng)
(peaks): 摩星 (Móxīng)

References

“Entry #52972”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

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