圖書館

See also: 図書館, 图书馆, and 圖書舘

ChineseEdit

	books	house; establishment
trad. (圖書館)	圖書	館
simp. (图书馆)	图书	馆
alternative forms	圖書舘圕 dated abbreviation

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圖書館 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
圖書館 (Classical)
圖書館 (Gan)
dù-cṳ̆-guāng (Min Dong)
tô͘-su-koán (Min Nan)
图书馆 (Wu)

圖書舘 (vertical, with 舘 variant)

圖書館 (right-to-left)

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
(Hokkien, POJ): tô͘-su-koán / tô͘-chir-koán / tô͘-si-koán / tô͘-chu-koán

(Teochew, Peng'im): dou⁵ ze¹ guang² / dou⁵ ze¹ guêng² / dou⁵ zu¹ guang²
Wu (Wiktionary): du sr kuoe (T3)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: túshūguǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˊ ㄕㄨㄍㄨㄢˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: twushugoan
  - Tongyong Pinyin: túshuguǎn
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu³⁵ ʂu⁵⁵ kwän²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: tou⁴ syu¹ gun²
  - Yale: tòuh syū gún
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tou⁴ sy¹ gun²
  - Guangdong Romanization: tou⁴ xu¹ gun²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯²¹ ʃyː⁵⁵ kuːn³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thù-sû-kón
  - Hakka Romanization System: tuˇ su´ gon`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: tu² su¹ gon³
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰu¹¹ su²⁴ kon³¹/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: dù-cṳ̆-guāng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu⁵³⁻²¹ ^(t͡s-)ʒy⁵⁵⁻⁵³ ^(k-)uaŋ³³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Philippines)
  - 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 (Philippines): /tɔ²⁴⁻²² su³³ kuan⁵⁵⁴/
  - 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 (Kaohsiung): /tɔ²³⁻³³ t͡su⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tɔ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡su⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁵³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: dou⁵ ze¹ guang² / dou⁵ ze¹ guêng² / dou⁵ zu¹ guang²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tôu tsṳ kuáng / tôu tsṳ kuéng / tôu tsu kuáng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sɯ³³⁻²³ kuaŋ⁵²/, /tou⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sɯ³³⁻²³ kueŋ⁵²/, /tou⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡su³³⁻²³ kuaŋ⁵²/

Note:

dou5 ze1 guêng2 - Chaozhou;
dou5 zu1 guang2 - Chaoyang .

Wu

(Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: du sr kuoe (T3)
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /d̻v̩ʷ²² sz̩⁵⁵ kv̩ʷø²¹/

NounEdit

圖書館

library (Classifier: 所 m; 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.