培根

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (培根)		培	根

Etymology

Borrowed from English bacon.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): péigēn

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄟˊ ㄍㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pui⁴ gan¹
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶be-ken

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: péigēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄟˊ ㄍㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: péigen
    • Wade–Giles: pʻei²-kên¹
    • Yale: péi-gēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: peirgen
    • Palladius: пэйгэнь (pɛjgɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰeɪ̯³⁵ kən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: pui⁴ gan¹
    • Yale: pùih gān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pui⁴ gan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: pui⁴ gen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰuːi̯²¹ kɐn⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶be-ken
    • MiniDict: be^去 ken
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³be-ken
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /be²² kən⁴⁴/

Noun

培根

1. bacon

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 培根 (“bacon”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		培根
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	培根
Cantonese	Hong Kong	煙肉
Wu	Shanghai	培根

Derived terms

• 培根蛋醬／培根蛋酱 (péigēndànjiàng)
• 培根蛋麵／培根蛋面 (péigēndànmiàn)

 

See also

• 鹹肉／咸肉 (xiánròu)
• 燻肉／熏肉 (xūnròu)

Proper noun

培根

1. A transliteration of the English or French surname Bacon

References

• Proper Names And Translation Service, Xinhua News Agency, editor (1993), “Bacon 培根 [英、德、法]”, in 世界人名翻译大辞典 [Names of The Worlds Peoples: A comprehensive dictionary of names in Roman-Chinese] (in Chinese), Beijing: China Translation & Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 165.