芭芭拉

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (芭芭拉)		芭	芭	拉
simp. #(芭芭拉)		芭	芭	拉
alternative forms		巴巴拉

Etymology

Borrowed from English Barbara.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Bābālā

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚ ㄅㄚ ㄌㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baa¹ baa¹ laai¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Bābālā
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚ ㄅㄚ ㄌㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Babala
    • Wade–Giles: Pa¹-pa¹-la¹
    • Yale: Bā-bā-lā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Babalha
    • Palladius: Бабала (Babala)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵ pä⁵⁵ lä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: baa¹ baa¹ laai¹
    • Yale: bā bā lāai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baa¹ baa¹ laai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ba¹ ba¹ lai¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paː⁵⁵ paː⁵⁵ laːi̯⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 巴巴拉 芭芭拉

Proper noun

芭芭拉

1. A transliteration of the English female given name Barbara

References

• Proper Names And Translation Service, Xinhua News Agency, editor (1993), “Barbara 芭芭拉 [英]”, in 世界人名翻译大辞典 [Names of The Worlds Peoples: A comprehensive dictionary of names in Roman-Chinese] (in Chinese), Beijing: China Translation & Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 197.