澀谷

See also: 澁谷, 渋谷, and 涩谷

Chinese

		grating (of surfaces); tart; acerbic	valley
trad. (澀谷)		澀	谷
simp. (涩谷)		涩	谷
alternative forms		涉谷

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 渋(しぶ)谷(や) (Shibuya). The popular Cantonese reading is based on reading 渋 as the graphically similar 涉 (sip3).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Sègǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄜˋ ㄍㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sip³ guk¹
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷seq-koq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Sègǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄜˋ ㄍㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Sègǔ
    • Wade–Giles: Sê⁴-ku³
    • Yale: Sè-gǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Sehguu
    • Palladius: Сэгу (Sɛgu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɤ⁵¹ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sip³ guk¹
    • Yale: sip gūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sip⁸ guk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: xib³ gug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːp̚³ kʊk̚⁵/

Note: As 涉谷.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁷seq-koq
    • MiniDict: seh^入 koh
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴seq-koq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /səʔ³³ koʔ⁴⁴/

Proper noun

澀谷

1. (～區) Shibuya (one of 23 special wards in Tokyo prefecture, Japan)
2. An orthographic borrowing of the Japanese surname 渋谷, Shibuya