三藩市

Chinese

		Three Feudatories	city
simp. and trad. (三藩市)		三藩	市

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of English San Francisco.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Sānfānshì, Sānfánshì

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄢㄈㄢㄕˋ, ㄙㄢㄈㄢˊ ㄕˋ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou, Jyutping): saam¹ faan⁴ si⁵

(Taishan, Wiktionary): lham¹ fan³ si^4*, lham¹ fan³ si⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
  - Pinyin: Sānfānshì
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄢㄈㄢㄕˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Sanfanshyh
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Sanfanshìh
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sän⁵⁵ fän⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
  - Pinyin: Sānfánshì
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄢㄈㄢˊ ㄕˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Sanfarnshyh
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Sanfánshìh
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sän⁵⁵ fän³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: saam¹ faan⁴ si⁵
  - Yale: sāam fàahn síh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: saam¹ faan⁴ si⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: sam¹ fan⁴ xi⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /säːm⁵⁵ fäːn²¹ siː¹³/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: lham¹ fan³ si^4*, lham¹ fan³ si⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬam³³ fan²² si²¹⁻²¹⁵/, /ɬam³³ fan²² si²¹/

Proper noun

三藩市

(～, formerly ～埠) (especially Cantonese) San Francisco (a city in California, United States)

Synonyms

舊金山／旧金山 (Jiùjīnshān)
三藩 (Sānfān)
(obsolete) 山藩市 (Shānfānshì), 三凡市

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