圖書館

See also: 図書館, 图书馆, and 圖書舘

Chinese edit

	books	house; establishment
trad. (圖書館/圖書舘)	圖書	館/舘
simp. (图书馆)	图书	馆
alternative forms	圖書舘圕 dated abbreviation

Wikipedia has articles on:

圖書館 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
圖書館 (Classical)
圖書館 (Gan)
dù-cṳ̆-guāng (Eastern Min)
tô͘-su-koán (Southern Min)
图书馆 (Wu)

圖書舘／图书舘 (túshūguǎn) (vertical, with 舘 (guǎn) variant)

圖書館 (right-to-left)

圖書館收藏大量書籍和文獻資料。圖為中國國家圖書館總館北區。

Pronunciation edit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): túshūguǎn

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨˊ ㄕㄨㄍㄨㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tou⁴ syu¹ gun²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thù-sû-kón
Eastern Min (BUC): dù-cṳ̆-guāng
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tô͘-su-koán / tô͘-chu-koán

(Teochew, Peng'im): dou⁵ ze¹ guang² / dou⁵ ze¹ guêng² / dou⁵ zu¹ guang²
Wu (Wugniu)
- (Northern): ⁶du-sy-kuoe

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: túshūguǎn → túshuguǎn (toneless variant)
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˊ ㄕㄨㄍㄨㄢˇ → ㄊㄨˊ ˙ㄕㄨㄍㄨㄢˇ (toneless variant)
  - Tongyong Pinyin: túshůguǎn
  - Wade–Giles: tʻu²-shu⁵-kuan³
  - Yale: tú-shu-gwǎn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: twu.shugoan
  - Palladius: тушугуань (tušuguanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu³⁵ ʂu⁵⁵ ku̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ → /tʰu³⁵ ʂu³ ku̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tou⁴ syu¹ gun²
  - Yale: tòuh syū gún
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tou⁴ sy¹ gun²
  - Guangdong Romanization: tou⁴ xu¹ gun²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯²¹ syː⁵⁵ kuːn³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thù-sû-kón
  - Hakka Romanization System: tuˇ su´ gon`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: tu² su¹ gon³
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰu¹¹ su²⁴ kon³¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: dù-cṳ̆-guāng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu⁵³⁻²¹ ^(t͡s-)ʒy⁵⁵⁻⁵³ ^(k-)uaŋ³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Penang, Philippines)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘-su-koán
  - Tâi-lô: tôo-su-kuán
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dosu'koarn
  - IPA (Taipei): /tɔ²⁴⁻¹¹ su⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔ²³⁻³³ su⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tɔ²⁴⁻²² su⁴⁴⁻²² kuan⁵³/
  - IPA (Penang): /tɔ²³⁻²¹ su³³⁻²¹ kuan⁴⁴⁵/
  - IPA (Philippines): /tɔ²⁴⁻²² su³³ kuan⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘-chu-koán
  - Tâi-lô: tôo-tsu-kuán
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dozu'koarn
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔ²³⁻³³ t͡su⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tɔ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡su⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁵³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: dou⁵ ze¹ guang² / dou⁵ ze¹ guêng² / dou⁵ zu¹ guang²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tôu tsṳ kuáng / tôu tsṳ kuéng / tôu tsu kuáng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sɯ³³⁻²³ kuaŋ⁵²/, /tou⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sɯ³³⁻²³ kueŋ⁵²/, /tou⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡su³³⁻²³ kuaŋ⁵²/

Note:

dou5 ze1 guêng2 - Chaozhou;
dou5 zu1 guang2 - Chaoyang .

Wu
- (Shanghai):
  - Wugniu: ⁶du-sy-kuoe
  - MiniDict: du^去 sy kuoe
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³du-sr-kuoe
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /du²² sz̩⁵⁵ kuø²¹/

Noun edit

圖書館

library (Classifier: 所 m; 家 m; 間／间 c)
學生們通常以圖書館為家。 [MSC, trad.]
学生们通常以图书馆为家。 [MSC, simp.]
Xuéshēngmen tōngcháng yǐ túshūguǎn wéi jiā. [Pinyin]
Students usually regard libraries as [their] [second] home.

圖書館是人類知識的海洋。 [MSC, trad.]
图书馆是人类知识的海洋。 [MSC, simp.]
Túshūguǎn shì rénlèi zhīshí de hǎiyáng. [Pinyin]
Libraries contain knowledge of human experience as vast as the open sea.

Synonyms edit

Dialectal synonyms of 圖書館 (“library”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		圖書館
Mandarin	Beijing	圖書館, 圖兒館 colloquial
	Taiwan	圖書館
	Singapore	圖書館
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	書房, библиотека
Cantonese	Hong Kong	圖書館, 拉把, 拉記
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	圖書館
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	圖書館
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	圖書館
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	圖書館
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	圖書館
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	圖書館
Southern Min	Xiamen	圖書館
	Tainan	圖書館
	Penang (Hokkien)	讀冊館, 圖書館