徐州

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Chinese

		slow; gentle; surname	province; prefecture; state province; prefecture; state; county
trad. (徐州)		徐	州
simp. ^#(徐州)		徐	州

Wikipedia has articles on:

徐州 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
徐州 (Cantonese)
Sṳ̀-ciŭ (Eastern Min)
Chhî-chiu-chhī (Southern Min)
徐州 (Wu)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Xúzhōu

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˊ ㄓㄡ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ceoi⁴ zau¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Sîr-chiu / Sû-chiu / Sî-chiu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Xúzhōu
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˊ ㄓㄡ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Syújhou
  - Wade–Giles: Hsü²-chou¹
  - Yale: Syú-jōu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shyujou
  - Palladius: Сюйчжоу (Sjujčžou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy³⁵ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ceoi⁴ zau¹
  - Yale: chèuih jāu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsoey⁴ dzau¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: cêu⁴ zeo¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɵy̯²¹ t͡sɐu̯⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
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    徐州
    隨州／随州
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sîr-chiu
  - Tâi-lô: Sîr-tsiu
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ²⁴⁻²² t͡siu³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sû-chiu
  - Tâi-lô: Sû-tsiu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: suciw
  - IPA (Xiamen): /su²⁴⁻²² t͡siu⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sî-chiu
  - Tâi-lô: Sî-tsiu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siciw
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /si¹³⁻²² t͡siu⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: zjo tsyuw

Rime
Character	徐	州
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	似魚切	職流切
Baxter	zjo	tsyuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨʌ/	/t͡ɕɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/ziɔ/	/t͡ɕiu/
Shao Rongfen	/ziɔ/	/t͡ɕiəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zɨə̆/	/cuw/
Li Rong	/ziɔ/	/t͡ɕiu/
Wang Li	/zĭo/	/t͡ɕĭəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/zi̯wo/	/t͡ɕi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xú	zhōu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ceoi⁴	zau¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*sə.la tu/

(Zhengzhang): /*lja tju/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	徐	州
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xú	zhōu
Middle Chinese	‹ zjo ›	‹ tsyuw ›
Old Chinese	/*sə.la/	/*tu/
English	walk slowly	islet in stream; province
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	徐	州
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	15782	17493
Phonetic component	余	州
Rime group	魚	幽
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	徐	周
Old Chinese	/*lja/	/*tju/

Proper noun

徐州

(～市) Xuzhou (a prefecture-level city in northwestern Jiangsu, China)
(historical) Xuzhou (an ancient province, one of the Nine Provinces of ancient China)

See also

九州 (Jiǔzhōu)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
徐	州
じょ Grade: S	しゅう Grade: 3
on'yomi

Proper noun

徐(じょ)州(しゅう) • (Joshū)

Xuzhou (a prefecture-level city in northwestern Jiangsu, China)

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