仰光

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (仰光)		仰	光

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ရန်ကုန် (rankun).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Yǎngguāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄤˇ ㄍㄨㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): joeng⁵ gwong¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Gióng-kong / Giáng-kong
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶gnin-kuaon

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Yǎngguāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄤˇ ㄍㄨㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Yǎngguang
    • Wade–Giles: Yang³-kuang¹
    • Yale: Yǎng-gwāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Yeangguang
    • Palladius: Янгуан (Janguan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: joeng⁵ gwong¹
    • Yale: yéuhng gwōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: joeng⁵ gwong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yêng⁵ guong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jœːŋ¹³ kʷɔːŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gióng-kong
    • Tâi-lô: Gióng-kong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: giofngkofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɡiɔŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡiɔŋ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kɔŋ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Giáng-kong
    • Tâi-lô: Giáng-kong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: giafngkofng
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɡiaŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kɔŋ⁴⁴/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶gnin-kuaon
    • MiniDict: nyin^去 kuaon
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³nyin-kuaan
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /n̠ʲin²² kuɑ̃⁴⁴/

Proper noun

仰光

1. Yangon (a city in Myanmar)
   • 1891, Xue Fucheng, 出使英法義比四國日記, volume 3, page 12:

     華商華工在仰光者三萬餘人，閩商居三分之一，生意較大，粵人雖多而生意次之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     华商华工在仰光者三万余人，闽商居三分之一，生意较大，粤人虽多而生意次之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     Huáshāng huágōng zài Yǎngguāng zhě sān wàn yú rén, Mǐn shāng jū sān fēn zhī yī, shēngyì jiào dà, Yuè rén suī duō ér shēngyì cì zhī. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (仰光):

• → Vietnamese: Ngưỡng Quang (仰光)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
仰	光

Proper noun

仰光

1. chữ Hán form of Ngưỡng Quang (“Yangon”).