保定

Chinese

		to defend; to protect; to insure or guarantee to defend; to protect; to insure or guarantee; to maintain; hold or keep; to guard	to set; to fix; to determine to set; to fix; to determine; to decide; to stabilize; to order
trad. (保定)		保	定
simp. #(保定)		保	定

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Bǎodìng

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄠˇ ㄉㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bou² ding⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Bǎodìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄠˇ ㄉㄧㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Bǎodìng
    • Wade–Giles: Pao³-ting⁴
    • Yale: Bǎu-dìng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Baodinq
    • Palladius: Баодин (Baodin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ tiŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bou² ding⁶
    • Yale: bóu dihng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bou² ding⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bou² ding⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pou̯³⁵ tɪŋ²²/

Verb

保定

1. (literary) to protect and stabilize
2. (literary) to hold stably

Proper noun

保定

1. (～市) Baoding (a prefecture-level city in Hebei, China; the former provincial capital of Zhili during the Qing dynasty, and Hebei from 1949 to 1958 and 1966 to 1968)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
保	定
ほ Grade: 5	てい Grade: 3
on’yomi

Proper noun

保(ほ)定(てい) • (Hotei) 

1. Baoding (a city in Hebei, China)