參觀

See also: 参観

Chinese

		ginseng; take part in; participate ginseng; take part in; participate; join; attend; to join; unequal; varied; irregular; to counsel; uneven; not uniform	to look at; to watch; to observe to look at; to watch; to observe; to behold; Taoist monastery
trad. (參觀)		參	觀
simp. (参观)		参	观

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cānguān

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄢ ㄍㄨㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caam¹ gun¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhâm-kôn
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chham-koan

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cam¹ guang¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹tshoe-kuoe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cānguān
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄢ ㄍㄨㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: canguan
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻan¹-kuan¹
    • Yale: tsān-gwān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsanguan
    • Palladius: цаньгуань (canʹguanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰän⁵⁵ ku̯än⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: caam¹ gun¹
    • Yale: chāam gūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaam¹ gun¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cam¹ gun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaːm⁵⁵ kuːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhâm-kôn
    • Hakka Romanization System: cam^ˊ gon^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cam¹ gon¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰam²⁴⁻¹¹ kon²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chham-koan
    • Tâi-lô: tsham-kuan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhamkoafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰam⁴⁴⁻²² kuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰam³³ kuan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰam⁴⁴⁻²² kuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰam⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰam⁴⁴⁻³³ kuan⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cam¹ guang¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsham kuang
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰam³³⁻²³ kuaŋ³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹tshoe-kuoe
    • MiniDict: tshoe^平 kuoe
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹tshoe-kuoe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sʰø⁵⁵ kuø²¹/

Verb

參觀

1. to visit (a place); to see; to look around; to go on a tour

   參觀路線／参观路线  ―  cānguān lùxiàn  ―  visitor route

   歡迎參觀。／欢迎参观。  ―  Huānyíng cānguān.  ―  Welcome. / Visitors are welcome.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with 旅遊／旅游 (lǚyóu) which is used to convey a sense of travelling for the purpose of leisure (e.g. sight-seeing), 旅行 (lǚxíng) which is used when any sense of travel is implied and 巡迴／巡回 (xúnhuí) which expresses tour as in a performance circuit.

Related terms

• 觀看／观看 (guānkàn)

References

• “Entry #50301”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.