利物浦

Chinese

		phonetic	riverside; river mouth
simp. and trad. (利物浦)		利物	浦

Etymology

From English Liverpool, possibly via Shanghainese.

浦 (pǔ) may be a phono-semantic matching of English -pool.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Lìwùpǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ ㄨˋ ㄆㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁶ mat⁶ pou²
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶li-veq-pu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Lìwùpǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ ㄨˋ ㄆㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Lìwùpǔ
    • Wade–Giles: Li⁴-wu⁴-pʻu³
    • Yale: Lì-wù-pǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Lihwuhpuu
    • Palladius: Лиупу (Liupu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹⁻⁵³ u⁵¹ pʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lei⁶ mat⁶ pou²
    • Yale: leih maht póu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁶ mat⁹ pou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: léi⁶ med⁶ pou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lei̯²² mɐt̚² pʰou̯³⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶li-veq-pu
    • MiniDict: li^去 veh pu
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³li-veq-pu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /li²² vəʔ⁵⁵ pu²¹/

Proper noun

利物浦

1. Liverpool (a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England)