彭城

Chinese

		surname	city walls; city; town
simp. and trad. (彭城)		彭	城

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Péngchéng

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄥˊ ㄔㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): paang⁴ sing⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Péngchéng
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄥˊ ㄔㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Péngchéng
    • Wade–Giles: Pʻêng²-chʻêng²
    • Yale: Péng-chéng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Perngcherng
    • Palladius: Пэнчэн (Pɛnčɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɤŋ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: paang⁴ sing⁴
    • Yale: pàahng sìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: paang⁴ sing⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: pang⁴ xing⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaːŋ²¹ sɪŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: baeng dzyeng

Rime
Character	彭	城
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	庚 (109)	清 (121)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	III
Fanqie	薄庚切	是征切
Baxter	baeng	dzyeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠæŋ/	/d͡ʑiᴇŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚaŋ/	/d͡ʑiɛŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/baŋ/	/d͡ʑiæŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/baɨjŋ/	/d͡ʑiajŋ/
Li Rong	/bɐŋ/	/ʑiɛŋ/
Wang Li	/bɐŋ/	/ʑĭɛŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱɐŋ/	/ʑi̯ɛŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	péng	chéng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pang4	sing4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.[b]ˤraŋ  [d]eŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*braːŋ  djeŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	彭	城
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	péng	chéng
Middle Chinese	‹ bæng ›	‹ dzyeng ›
Old Chinese	/*C.[b]ˁraŋ/	/*[d]eŋ/
English	(place name)	city wall
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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	彭	城
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	9681	1418
Phonetic component	彭	成
Rime group	陽	耕
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	彭	成
Old Chinese	/*braːŋ/	/*djeŋ/

Proper noun

彭城

1. (archaic) Pengcheng (present day Xuzhou)

References

• Xuzhou on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• 彭城郡 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh
• 徐州市 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh