卑詩

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (卑詩)		卑	詩
simp. (卑诗)		卑	诗

Etymology

Borrowed from English BC.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Bēishī

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄟ ㄕ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bei¹ si¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Bēishī
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄟ ㄕ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Beishih
    • Wade–Giles: Pei¹-shih¹
    • Yale: Bēi-shr̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Beishy
    • Palladius: Бэйши (Bɛjši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /peɪ̯⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bei¹ si¹
    • Yale: bēi sī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bei¹ si¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: béi¹ xi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pei̯⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/

Proper noun

(deprecated template usage) 卑詩

1. (～省) (chiefly Cantonese) British Columbia; BC (Canadian province)

Usage notes

More commonly used by local Chinese than the synonyms below.

Synonyms

• 不列顛哥倫比亞／不列颠哥伦比亚 (Bùlièdiān Gēlúnbǐyà)
• 英屬哥倫比亞／英属哥伦比亚 (Yīngshǔ Gēlúnbǐyà)

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