利物浦
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Chinese
| phonetic | riverside; river mouth | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (利物浦) |
利物 | 浦 | |
Etymology
From English Liverpool, possibly via Shanghainese.
浦 (pǔ) may be a phono-semantic matching of English -pool.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ ㄨˋ ㄆㄨˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: Lìwùpǔ
- Wade–Giles: Li4-wu4-pʻu3
- Yale: Lì-wù-pǔ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Lihwuhpuu
- Palladius: Лиупу (Liupu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /li⁵¹⁻⁵³ u⁵¹ pʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: lei6 mat6 pou2
- Yale: leih maht póu
- Cantonese Pinyin: lei6 mat9 pou2
- Guangdong Romanization: léi6 med6 pou2
- Sinological IPA (key): /lei̯²² mɐt̚² pʰou̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Wu
Proper noun
利物浦
- Liverpool (a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England)