圖書館

See also: 図書館 and 图书馆

ChineseEdit

		books	house; establishment
trad. (圖書館)		圖書	館
simp. (图书馆)		图书	馆

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Japanese 圖書館 (としょかん) (toshokan).

PronunciationEdit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): túshūguǎn

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨˊ ㄕㄨㄍㄨㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tou⁴ syu¹ gun²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thù-sû-kón
Min Dong (BUC): dù-cṳ̆-guāng
Min Nan (POJ): tô͘-su-koán / tô͘-chir-koán / tô͘-si-koán / tô͘-chu-koán
Wu (Wiktionary): du sr kuoe (T3)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: túshūguǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˊ ㄕㄨㄍㄨㄢˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: twushugoan
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰu³⁵ ʂu⁵⁵ ku̯a̠n²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: tou⁴ syu¹ gun²
  - Yale: tòuh syū gún
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tou⁴ sy¹ gun²
  - Guangdong Romanization: tou⁴ xu¹ gun²
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯²¹ ɕyː⁵⁵ kuːn³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thù-sû-kón
  - Hakka Romanization System: tuˇ su´ gon`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: tu² su¹ gon³
  - IPA: /tʰu¹¹ su²⁴ kon³¹/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: dù-cṳ̆-guāng
  - IPA ^(key): /tu⁵³⁻²¹ ^(t͡s-)ʒy⁵⁵⁻⁵³ ^(k-)uaŋ³³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘-su-koán
  - Tâi-lô: tôo-su-kuán
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dosu'koarn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tɔ²⁴⁻²² su⁴⁴⁻²² kuan⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tɔ²⁴⁻¹¹ su⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔ²³⁻³³ su⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘-chir-koán
  - Tâi-lô: tôo-tsir-kuán
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔ²⁴⁻²² t͡sɯ³³ kuan⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘-si-koán
  - Tâi-lô: tôo-si-kuán
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dosi'koarn
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔ¹³⁻²² ɕi⁴⁴⁻²² kuan⁵³/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tô͘-chu-koán
  - Tâi-lô: tôo-tsu-kuán
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dozu'koarn
  - IPA (Taipei): /tɔ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡su⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔ²³⁻³³ t͡su⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁴¹/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: du sr kuoe (T3)
  - IPA ^(key): /d̻v̩ʷ²² sz̩⁵⁵ kv̩ʷø²¹/

NounEdit

圖書館

library (Classifier: 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.