寶安

Chinese

		a jewel or gem; a treasure; precious	content; calm; still content; calm; still; quiet; to pacify; peace; how
trad. (寶安)		寶	安
simp. (宝安)		宝	安

Renamed from 新安 (Xīn'ān) in the Republican period.

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Bǎo'ān
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄠˇ ㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Bǎo-an
  - Wade–Giles: Pao³-an¹
  - Yale: Bǎu-ān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Baoan
  - Palladius: Баоань (Baoanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ ˀän⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: bou² on¹
  - Yale: bóu ōn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bou² on¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: bou² on¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pou̯³⁵ ɔːn⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
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    保安
    寶安／宝安
Min Nan
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bo² ang¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pó ang
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /po⁵²⁻³⁵ aŋ³³/

寶安

(～區) Bao'an (a district of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China)
(～縣) (historical) Bao'an (a county of China, established by Eastern Jin dynasty and abolished in 1979 to become Shenzhen)

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