叻埠

Chinese

		phonetic	a jetty; port; a city a jetty; port; a city; quay
simp. and trad. (叻埠)		叻	埠

Etymology

叻 (lè) is short for short for 石叻 (Shílè), itself from Malay Malay selat (“strait”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Lèfù

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄜˋ ㄈㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lik¹ fau⁶
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): lag⁸ bou¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Lèfù
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄜˋ ㄈㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Lèfù
    • Wade–Giles: Lê⁴-fu⁴
    • Yale: Lè-fù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Lehfuh
    • Palladius: Лэфу (Lɛfu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɤ⁵¹⁻⁵³ fu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lik¹ fau⁶
    • Yale: līk fauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lik⁷ fau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: lig¹ feo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɪk̚⁵ fɐu̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: lag⁸ bou¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: la̍k pou
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lak̚⁴⁻² pou³³/

Proper noun

叻埠

1. (regional, dated) Singapore

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 新加坡 (“Singapore”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		新加坡
Mandarin	Taiwan	新加坡
	Malaysia	新加坡, 新國
	Singapore	新加坡, 星洲 nickname, 獅城 nickname, 小紅點 nickname, 石叻 dated, 石叻埠 dated, 叻埠 dated
Cantonese	Guangzhou	星加坡, 叻埠
	Hong Kong	新加坡, 星加坡, 星國, 星洲 nickname, 叻埠 dated
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	星加坡
	Penang (Guangfu)	星加坡
	Singapore (Guangfu)	星加坡
Southern Min	Xiamen	新加坡, 石叻 dated
	Quanzhou	新加坡
	Zhangzhou	新加坡
	Penang (Hokkien)	新加坡
	Singapore (Hokkien)	新加坡, 獅城, 石叻 dated
	Manila (Hokkien)	新加坡
	Jieyang	石叻 dated, 叻埠 dated
	Singapore (Teochew)	新加坡
	Singapore (Hainanese)	新加坡
Wu	Shanghai	新加坡