赤壁

Chinese

		red; scarlet; bare red; scarlet; bare; naked	wall; rampart
simp. and trad. (赤壁)		赤	壁
Literally: “red cliffs”.

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Chìbì

(Zhuyin): ㄔˋ ㄅㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cek³ bik¹
Min Nan (POJ): Chhiah-piah

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Chìbì
  - Zhuyin: ㄔˋ ㄅㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Chìhbì
  - Wade–Giles: Chʻih⁴-pi⁴
  - Yale: Chr̀-bì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Chyhbih
  - Palladius: Чиби (Čibi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ pi⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: cek³ bik¹
  - Yale: chek bīk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsek⁸ bik⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: cég³ big¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛːk̚³ pɪk̚⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhiah-piah
  - Tâi-lô: Tshiah-piah
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chiahpiaq
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕʰia(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ piaʔ³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰia(ʔ)⁵ piaʔ⁵/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰia(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ piaʔ³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰia(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ piaʔ³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕʰia(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ piaʔ³²/

Proper noun

赤壁

(historical) Chibi (place where the Battle of Chibi happened)
(～市) Chibi (a county-level city in Xianning, Hubei, China)
(～街道) Chibi (a subdistrict of Huangzhou district, Huanggang, Hubei, China)
(～鎮) Chibi (a town in Chibi, Xianning, Hubei, China)

Derived terms

赤壁鏖兵
鏖兵赤壁

赤壁之戰／赤壁之战

Descendants

→ English: Ch'ih-pi, Chibi

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