五筒

Chinese

		five	tube; cylinder
simp. and trad. (五筒)		五	筒

The "5 Circle" mahjong tile.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wǔtǒng

(Zhuyin): ㄨˇ ㄊㄨㄥˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ng⁵ tung⁴
Min Nan (POJ): gō-tâng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: wǔtǒng [Phonetic: wútǒng]
  - Zhuyin: ㄨˇ ㄊㄨㄥˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuutoong
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wǔtǒng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /u²¹⁴⁻³⁵ tʰʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ng⁵ tung⁴
  - Yale: ńgh tùhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ng⁵ tung⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: ng⁵ tung⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋ̍¹³ tʰʊŋ²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gō-tâng
  - Tâi-lô: gō-tâng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: goixdaang
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ɡo²²⁻²¹ taŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡo⁴¹⁻²² taŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɡo²²⁻²¹ taŋ¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ɡo³³⁻¹¹ taŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɡɤ³³⁻²¹ taŋ²³/

Noun

五筒

the "5 Circle" mahjong tile
(slang) military annexation, forced unification (generally used within the context of Taiwan)

Verb

五筒

(slang) annex, unify by force (generally used within the context of Taiwan)

Usage notes

To circumvent censorship-based keyword filters, internet users in China may use the homophone 五筒 (wǔtǒng) as a substitute of 武統 (wǔtǒng; "military annexation"). These words are only homophones in Mandarin; they do not resemble one another in Cantonese or Hokkien.

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