鹹水埠

Chinese

		salt water; brine; Hong Kong dollar	a jetty; port; a city a jetty; port; a city; quay
trad. (鹹水埠)		鹹水	埠
simp. (咸水埠)		咸水	埠

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Xiánshuǐbù

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄅㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haam⁴ seoi² fau⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Xiánshuǐbù
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄅㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Siánshuěibù
    • Wade–Giles: Hsien²-shui³-pu⁴
    • Yale: Syán-shwěi-bù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shyanshoeibuh
    • Palladius: Сяньшуйбу (Sjanʹšujbu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ pu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: haam⁴ seoi² fau⁶
    • Yale: hàahm séui fauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haam⁴ soey² fau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: ham⁴ sêu² feo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːm²¹ sɵy̯³⁵ fɐu̯²²/

Proper noun

鹹水埠

1. (dated) Chinatown (a neighborhood of Vancouver, Canada); or Vancouver (a city in Canada)
   • 1904, 約翰大衛德 [David D. Jones], quoting advertisement, The Surnames of the Chinese in America [旅美華人姓字], page 32:

     加拿大　域多利　咸水埠　歌林巴等埠之總理華人入境委員 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     加拿大　域多利　咸水埠　歌林巴等埠之总理华人入境委员 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     gaa¹ naa⁴ daai⁶, wik⁶ do¹ lei⁶, haam⁴ seoi² fau⁶, go¹ lam⁴ baa¹ dang² bou⁶ zi¹ zung² lei⁵ waa⁴ jan⁴ jap⁶ ging² wai² jyun⁴ [Jyutping]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Descendants

• → English: Saltwater City (calque)

References

• Lorraine Dong, Marlon K. Hom (1980) “Chinatown Chinese: The San Francisco Dialect”, in Amerasia‎^[1], page 14