仰崗

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (仰崗)		仰	崗
simp. (仰岗)		仰	岗

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Lióng-kong

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lióng-kong
    • Tâi-lô: Lióng-kong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liofngkofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liɔŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kɔŋ⁴⁴/

Proper noun

仰崗

1. (Xiamen Hokkien, archaic) Yangon (a city in Myanmar)

Synonyms

• 仰光 (Gióng-kong, Giáng-kong)

References

• Macgowan, John (1883) “Rangoon”, in English and Chinese Dictionary of the Amoy Dialect (overall work in English and Hokkien), Amoy, China: A. A. Marcal, page 418