佛波勒

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (佛波勒)		佛	波	勒

Etymology

From the pinyin readings of the letters F, B and L, which is a pseudo initialism of English Federal Bureau of Investigation. The use of L instead of I is due to the resemblance of lowercase l (el) to uppercase I (i) under sans-serif fonts.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Fóbōlè

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄛˊ ㄅㄛ ㄌㄜˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Fóbōlè
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄛˊ ㄅㄛ ㄌㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Fóbolè
    • Wade–Giles: Fo²-po¹-lê⁴
    • Yale: Fwó-bwō-lè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Forboleh
    • Palladius: Фоболэ (Fobolɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu̯ɔ³⁵ pu̯ɔ⁵⁵ lɤ⁵¹/

Proper noun

佛波勒

1. (Mainland China, neologism, humorous) the FBI; the Federal Bureau of Investigation